Thursday, January 30, 2003

Case management project in the UK. Verdicy: Late, over-budget, only one-bidder, bad project management...
11:57:33 AM    
 Monday, January 20, 2003

There seems to be no technical reason for the strict regulation of radio spectrum that we currently have. This idea dovetails quite nicely with the StupidNet idea.
10:57:53 AM    
 Friday, January 10, 2003

The Nelsonville, Ohio, Public Library gives us a nice list of success stories using the Koha Project for library automation (catalogue and more).
10:11:33 AM    
 Wednesday, January 08, 2003

I've been thinking about features a dynamic city website should have, and ran across Jobs as RSS. There is no reason why city/municipal websites can't offer an RSS feed for employment opportunities.
11:31:33 PM    
 Tuesday, January 07, 2003

Read articles such as Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet and seriously consider their suggestions! Perhaps there is a bit too much choice in distro's at the moment - in RedHat 8, you can work in either Gnome or KDE. Hmmmm - which one should I choose? (Gnome is their default environment, and looks really slick. KDE, especially Konquerer, the KDE file browser, seems to be a bit more robust, IMHO.) It is very annoying that XMMS does not play MP3's by default. Trying to play video's is quite a task or trial and error. And Mozilla Mail does not have a spell checker! (But it is very easy to install...)

I believe that Linux on the Desktop works. It just needs to be properly implemented. Decide what applications your workgroup needs (word processing? e-mail? presentations? drawing?) and test it out on a workstation before implementing it for everyone else. Have clear goals as to what staff really need to be doing on their pc's during their 8-9 hours in the office. The fact that Linux does not handle *all* types of mpeg video may not be such a big deal. I've been using Red Hat 8 for a couple of months now, but perhaps I should re-visit my perennial favorite, Mandrake. a nice, short review of Mandrake 9.
6:28:58 PM    

 Friday, December 27, 2002

While reading the slashdot discussion for Govt move on to let in Linux, I came across a link to the problems faced by the Mexican government's Linux experiment. One of the deal-stoppers for them was limited device support, especially for WinModems, which are mostly dependent on Windows drivers. Device support for Linux is much much better now in 2002 (soon to be 2003) than in 1998, when this Mexican project was started. I think this project was possibly hamstrung (crippled) by the fact that the PC's were not purchased for this Linux deployment - the PC's could have been spec'd easily to conform to Linux device driver availability. Lack of Linux-trained techs was also a big problem.
11:42:05 AM    
 Wednesday, December 18, 2002

Mozilla in Xhosa, Zulu, Venda, Northern Sotho, Siswati and Tswana; KOffice in Xhosa, Zulu and Venda, partly thanks to the Shuttleworth Foundation.
6:06:58 PM    

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