Internet is amazing. I learned about the deployment of the first OLPC batch here in Uruguay through Techmeme->Ivan Krstić’s blog. And I live here!
Ivan’s article is inspirational and exciting. I absolutely believe in the OLPC program, and will do what it is at my reach to support it. There are lots of good people here […]
Voting frequency on the poll we were running, asking readers to input their predictions for Windows Vista adoption percentage for January 2009, was starting to wade, so I decided to close it.
The results are pretty close to what I expected: over 75% of the voters think Windows Vista is not going to surpass the 50% […]
I am still trying to figure it out: Is Silverlight another big waste of money from Microsoft, or the next big bump on the road for Linux on the desktop?
Silverlight is Microsoft’s new cross-browser, ‘cross-platform’ plug-in for delivering multimedia and rich interactive applications (RIA) on the Web.
Doubtless, Silverlight will have advantages over its competitors (Adobe’s […]
Dell announced yesterday that it is going to sell PCs and Notebooks with Ubuntu Linux installed. The move is welcome with great joy from the Linux nerd community.
The significance of the announcement is due to Dell being a big PC seller, and Ubuntu being the Linux distribution with faster popularity growth for the last couple […]
Skype is the best free application for chatting, talking (I mean Voice over IP, aka VoIP) and Video Chats.
You can even call regular phones at any country in the world, with rates that are unbeatable.
Many plugins have been developed that extend Skype’s functionality. For instance, I use Unyte for remote Desktop handling.
What Skype is missing
Skype […]
So, when will it be? Why can’t Linux be installed on Joe Average’s desktop?
I have been using Linux at work for over 6 months. I did accomplish any task I wanted. But I am a Software Engineer. Doing things in linux was, most of the time, a challenge that I enjoyed.
Over a year ago we […]
I have not used Microsoft Office for six months now. I obviously am not a heavy Office Apps user. I use Linux at my office, and haven’t had the need for it; not even once.
But there is one thing I noticed: the fact that Power Point presentations do not work too well with OpenOffice (quite […]
