Monthly Archives: January 2006

Principles, Software and Freedom

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails for Debian

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

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

Posted on January 5, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Enabling wireframe dragging in Ubuntu GNOME

Posted on January 3, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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