An interesting article on an electronic musician, Kim Cascone, switching from Mac to Linux for his music production. I wonder how this guy’s installation compares from starting with Ubunu Studio. My understanding is that Ubuntu Studio is supposed to be tailored to audio/video/image production from the start. I’ve been meaning to try it for a while, . . . → Read More: Linux and music production
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Every time I buy music from amazon in mp3 format, I’m absolutely amazed at how well it works. I’m not just talking about the no-drm mp3 stuff, that’s only half of the equation. What’s the other half? Convenience. Amazon has a download utility for their digital music sales. I was amazed the first time I tried . . . → Read More: It’s the simple things The french legislature switched from windows to linux in July 2007. ZDnet ran an article a year later (in french) with several first hand accounts of the effects of the transition. The conclusion was that everything went well. Now, the German foreign ministry is in the process of migrating its 11 000 desktops to linux with about . . . → Read More: FOSS taking over the world I’m a strong supporter of free and open source software. To be honest, I’m a supporter of free and open source anything really. That’s why I contribute to wikitravel (sporadically, but still), why I started wikiscuba (well, still trying to make it take off, really), openstreetmap and anything I can get my hands on that suits . . . → Read More: The 6 months music challenge, Issue 1: Hipster, Please! Compilations People have lately been talking about “computing in the cloud”. I hate that sentence. Nonetheless, what I’m guessing they’re referring to is “using the internet as an infrastructure design component in computing systems”. I’m not happy with that either. For one, as a scientist, the word “computing” has a rather precise definition which can’t be equated . . . → Read More: The Cloud and the Dreamer [I know I'd promised this post would be about the great idea I have and which I've been dangling around without really being descriptive, but as far as I can see, this has just come out and I need to talk about it.] So the wikimedia foundation just announced a deal was accepted by everyone that would make the GFDL (the gnu free documentation license) compatible with the creative commons license. Wow, ok, so what does that mean? Two short points. Continue reading Wikipedia licensing will be compatible with creative commons Just saw this on the OpenStreetMaps mailing list: I were just told about an bikerouting application for Gotheburg, Sweden. It’s all in swedish but may be interesting anyway. It is at <http://demo.triona.se/cykel/>, try for example enter “parkgatan 7″ as start/Från and “torggatan 1″ as destination/Till and then click “Beräkna rutt”. You get a route in green . . . → Read More: “Google Maps” for bicycles Linux on the desktop and so FOSS, Free (as in free speech) and Open Source Software, have been making headway lately. Linux is still not accepted as an operating system. It’s still viewed as a geekie thing that’s not ready to be used by the masses. So I was wondering lately how this could be changed . . . → Read More: How linux (well, really foss) is going to rule the world: the 2-step program |
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