What I go to school for

This could become a bit of a “Champs on Tour” following on from the blog entry that Miles posted last week.
Not surprisingly I have also been out and about, today at “Social Source South West” – a sort of “adopted-son-gone-South-and-once-removed” spin-off from the “Penguin Day” that in previous years has followed on from the Lasa [...]

New releases

Just a couple of new releases and new discoveries to share with you today.
Nick Blundell (one of the team at Illuminate ICT) has made the release candidate version of SmartBOX 1.0.
SmartBOX is completely open source easy-to-install, easy-to-manage resilient, minimal hardware specification, and feature rich network server, with an emphasis on ease of use by non-technical [...]

Where the link goes, nobody knows

It wasn’t meant as a challenge, but Tony Okotie, the East Midlands Regional Champion has been doing some research into alternatives to proprietary ICT equipment. It can’t beat the Bristol Wireless crew on price, but this is a brand new laptop from ASUS running Linux, Open Office and all the FOSS software you could want.
To [...]

How low can you go?

What’s the lowest price you can find for a desktop PC?
The Sunday papers always have adverts for best value machines from the likes of ‘Dixons World’ or ‘PC Comet Express’ at the bargain price of £299, if you go to an on-line shopping site you can pick one up for around £230 (inc VAT), but [...]

mega-conversations

I was going to write tonight about about the FOSS Ubuntu usability debate that has been taking place on ukriders but thought that’s not very Web2.0 is it… why read my version of it when you can instead have it first-hand on the discussion list and comment live to the debate.
Instead to add to [...]