Monthly Archives: January 2006

Principles, Software and Freedom

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/9/2006
Nice blog post from Benjamin Mako-Hill about the ethics of software, and using free software when it's inconvenient as well as when it's convenient: What's amazing to me is that in many situations, major advocates of free and open source software in these areas -- people who are advocating the software because of the freedom and [...]
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Ruby on Rails for Debian

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/9/2006
I may need to give this a shot. I've been hearing so much love for Ruby on Rails that I feel the need to actually sit down and spend a weekend playing with it.
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Two years with WordPress

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/5/2006
I started this blog in 2004, with WordPress 1.0. The domain is older than that, I ran Dissociated Press using a few other blogging tools, like phpWebLog, Slash, and (briefly) Blosxom, but WordPress is the only tool that I've been consistently happy with. (Which is not to say that it's perfect or anything, but it's [...]
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Enabling wireframe dragging in Ubuntu GNOME

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/3/2006
Thought this might be helpful, found in the Ubuntu Forums here. To turn on wireframe dragging in Ubuntu GNOME turn on reduced resources by going to the Applications menu, System Tools, Configuration Editor. Once you've opened the Configuration Editor, go to apps - metacity - general. There will be a checkbox for "reduced resources." Check that, [...]
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