No. 6 (Technology Sites): Moving to Open Source for Workstations?

What would be the costs, and what would be the benefits, of moving to open-source software for our public workstations?
Here I’m talking mainly about changing from Microsoft to Linux — which would also mean ditching MS Office software on computers and replacing it with OpenOffice, and ditching Internet Explorer and replacing it with Firefox, Opera, [...]

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No. 4 (Exploring Flickr): Indexing office.

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Indexing office., originally uploaded by Pablo del Norte.

This is my first photo of mine with the “EERL” tag. It, with all the others, should appear in the “Learning 2.0″ set.

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No. 5 (Flickr Mashups)

Okay, “Mappr” is a clumsy app. What I want to do is zoom in on a place and see what’s been taken there, but it appears that only tag-searching will take me to anything. I just tried searching their “collections” (pre-defined tags, I guess), and it’s still supposedly loading the photos. (I chose [...]

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No. 2 (Seven and one-half habits)

Difficult
Probably all of the 7.5 habits have their easy and difficult aspects. But one that feels absolutely foreign to me is #3: “View problems as challenges.”
When I want to make some bread, I need space on the kitchen counter. If the counter is littered with dishes that need washing and supplies that need [...]

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