Migrate to Linux
A primer from Patrick Norton.
Yes, that’s right, Patrick Norton of TechTV and The Screen Savers fame. Pat’s written a little article in his blog over at Extreme Tech about switching to Linux for “free”. I put “free” in quotes like that because, frankly, nothing is free. There are some things that just don’t work or don’t work as well in Linux as they do in Windows. And, there are programs that simply don’t run under Linux. Oh, sure, you can try to use an emulator or whatever to make it happen, but I’ve never, ever really trusted those suckers. Especially not with my financial data. To me, that’s what will “kill” Windows, a Linux-version of Quicken.
Anyway, Pat has a good overview of the pros and cons of switching to Linux and it’s worth taking a look.
Ahh… I love Patrick Norton and the whole Screen Savers gang. I’m not sure if you listen to podcasts, but they have a very popular one called This Week In Tech (TWiT). It’s all the old screen savers gang and one of my favorite podcasts.
Comment by Orion — 12/8/2005 @ 6:27 am
Do you have any recommendations for writing law school exams?
Comment by Thomas — 12/8/2005 @ 1:27 pm
Sure, lie.
Seriously, I don’t know much about *that* kind of technical writing. The only thing I can think of is that terrible red grammar book we used in high school, under “writing to persuade”.
Comment by the Network Geek — 12/8/2005 @ 1:45 pm
Writing Law School Exams?? Did I read that right?
NG’s background is in Marketing. Seems he accidently got into computers. Your’s truly had to break a leg to finally land an office job as a computer jockey.
I actually recently took a Business Law class. I really like the prof’s exam style. He would find points of law, with decisions based upon precedent to back them up, find some related points and mix them into a scenario and ask questions about it. Like:
Bob and Jane have a party. Bob invites Rick, who drinks Bob’s scotch and becomes stinking drunk. He tries to hit on Jane and Bob asks him to leave. He refuses to leave and instead goes into the backyard and says he’s going to go for a swim. En route to the pool, he trips on Bob’s bike (lying in the sidewalk) and breaks his leg. Ricks sues Bob for wrongful injury.
This provides ample fodder for questions like “Are Bob and Jane liable for Rick’s injury, since it was their party ?” “Is it unreasonably negligent for someone to leave their bike in their backyard?”
Comment by PM — 12/8/2005 @ 9:59 pm