Linux

Why Mac?
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October 26, 2015

For one thing, if you do many different things throughout the day, it’s extremely easy to switch focus because the Mac can have all things going at once.

Hillary’s private email system is not subject to the FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act).

It manifests itself in many ways but the root cause is western culture’s profit-focused determination that forms the core of most of our lives. That desire to be better, to make more profit, to beat the other guy, is why products based on closed source efforts will always beat those based on open source.

Android Tablet
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November 20, 2012

I’m shifting to an Android tablet, the Insignia Flex (NS-13T001) from Best Buy for $249 and tax. They hit the stores this past Saturday and I grabbed mine shortly after they opened on Monday.

An Idea Begins
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June 24, 2012

My Raspberry Pi should arrive tomorrow. It is a credit card-size computer running Linux.

For the geeky types out there, are you watching Raspberry Pi?

Open Source

Basically it means that the item, commonly a piece of software, is usually available in source code form, you can get a copy, read it, and modify it. It also says that, if you change it, you must also make those changes available to anyone and that you must do so without charging them anything.

Once Upon A Time
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March 24, 2010

Once upon a time, there were three RTOSes named VRTX, pSOS and VxWorks.

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