Ted Ritzer: Learning TechnologiesStrategic Technologies for Education(Untitled)- December 29, 2003 Holy Grail of Inexpensive Laptop Alternative! My daughter wants to be able to write articles for her university newspaper, but can't afford a laptop!Dana may have the answer running on Palm! So if you want to check this laptop altnernative, check out their website.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/29.html#a3801 The Linux Switch Experiment!- December 29, 2003 The PCworld Linux Switch Experiment: this article is based around the idea of taking away Windows from a non-geek, and replacing it with Linux for a month to see if they could be productive using Linux, and secondarily to see if they would immediately switch back after the experiment. The punchline, OK, I can't resist, and for you Linux people, the punchline is this Windows user had not yet switched back, but as he says the jury is still out on the complete switch scenario! That said though you.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/29.html#a3799 (Untitled)- December 27, 2003 Education wants research proposals from small business Government Computer News (GCN) home -- federal, state and local government technologyhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/27.html#a3778 (Untitled)- December 24, 2003 Merry Christmas from the Accordian Guy worth repeating: Stole this file from the above site, cause I think it really does capture some of both the frustration and the joy of Xmas. All the best from WIFLblog and enjoy the Accordian Guy's Christmas story, and don't forget to visit his site: the Accordian Guy Christmas story now follows: Merry Christmas, and I mean it in the nice sense of the phrase by Joey deVilla on December 24, 2003 12:13PM (EST) This is from last year (with a little...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/24.html#a3748 (Untitled)- December 23, 2003 Linux Toys Projectscheck this out if you want some projects for you and your kids Linux Toys Projects Music JukeboxHome Video ArchiveTV RecorderPlayerArcade Game PlayerHome Network ServerHome Broadcast CenterTemperature MonitorDigital ReceptionistMini ISPWeb Hosting ServiceDoghouse LinuxBSD GamesToy Car ControllerDigital Picture Framehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/23.html#a3727 (Untitled)- December 23, 2003 NetDiskô with NDAS Technology is the only external Hard Disk Drive (HDD) that can be connected directly to either your computer or your Local Area Network (LAN) using an Ethernet cable OR directly to your computer using a USB cable! Now you can easily share additional storage with everyone on your network. NetDiskô utilizes XIMETA's own NDAS Technology, making it easy to add instant, high-speed storage to your PC while giving you the option to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/23.html#a3724 (Untitled)- December 22, 2003 ìWe conducted a very comprehensive evaluation, and Dot Hillís SANnet was the best performing, most cost-effective solution for our requirements." -- Joseph AninoTechnology Director American Museum of Natural HistoryNew York, NYLargest Natural History Museum in the World Located in Central Park in New York City, the American Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in the world with over 32 million specimens and artifacts. It is home...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/22.html#a3719 (Untitled)- December 18, 2003 Datamata - the web based database access tool. provides a web interface to query, browse, and modify database data online. New Entries at Datamation Product Watchhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/18.html#a3655 (Untitled)- December 17, 2003 Government 'must act now to save science'. Education: The government must act now to tackle the 'plummeting popularity' of the sciences in schools and universities, the influential Royal Society said today. Guardian Unlimitedhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/17.html#a3626 (Untitled)- December 17, 2003 Berkley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing-BOINC from their website: BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources. The BOINC's features fall into several areas: Resource sharing among independent projects Many different projects can use BOINC. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. However, projects can share resources in the following sense: Participants install a core client program which in turn...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/learningTechnologies/2003/12/17.html#a3625 |