Posts Tagged ‘linux’

More on the Economics of Computing: An Example

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I spent the last week on computer upgrades worth $2500 but costing nothing.  I swapped out two desktops for two laptops, and installed the Edubuntu operating system on all four plus a third laptop.  We now have four laptops fully loaded, and two desktops for sale.  Loading the operating system on the first four computers […]


I Have a Bible Again

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Before my switch to linux, my free bible software of choice was the so-called Online Bible (named before the Internet, and the name just stuck).  I loved using it because it had more features than most packages that cost money that I’ve seen, and it had a lot of add-on modules (I filled a CD […]


On the Economics of Computing and Other Life Hacks

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Economical Computing
My old fast lap-top’s fan died, so I got a new older laptop and have been configuring it. I took this opportunity to finally dive into the Linux operating system head-first. I have spent the last 5 days learning the operating system and loading my software and documents, and basically getting all […]