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Ubuntu 8.04… day two

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

After nine hours of downloading from the mirror at OSU, my connection was lost.  I tried one of the torrents just to compare the download time. Twenty minutes later, I had the ISO on my hard drive.  What a great … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 8.04 Released… so what

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I have been waiting to get my hands on this release of Ubuntu.  I got up this morning and went to the Ubuntu site. This Site is Temporarily Unavailable It was that way until the afternoon.  At the rate my … Continue reading →

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All human knowledge… in your pocket

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I haven’t posted very much about my iPod Touch.  I can assure you it has become one of my most used pieces of technology.  Today I added something to it that is mind boggling. I installed wikipedia on my iPod … Continue reading →

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Scribd

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here is something I stumbled across today. I was looking for a way to dump a lot of files into an online location so that those files would be easy to access from other sites. My files are Word docs, … Continue reading →

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Tyranny of Filtering

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I managed to squeeze in an extra podcast this week.  Teachers Teaching Teachers #95 dives into filtering first hand with the people that run the filters in an assortment of districts.  The panelists ranged from a New York City department … Continue reading →

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