Natester writes “While Debian struggles to get its next release (Etch) out the door, the project’s founder, Ian Murdock, has spoken out about politics, the lack of firm leadership, and Ubuntu’s meteoric rise in prominence. Murdock believes that Debian is “process run amok” — nobody feels empowered to make decisions, leading to the sluggish rate of progress.”

Hummm I said that a year ago, Baldy

Source: Ian Murdock: Debian “Missing a Big Opportunity”

So, you’ve turned your back on traditional mail clients and get your mail fix via Gmail these days. The only problem is getting to all those old message that are stuck in your old email client. One way to stuff that old mail into your shiny and capacious Gmail account is to use Mark Lyon’s Gmail Loader.

Source: Import mail into Gmail with the Gmail Loader

Ever wanted to take the window open on your desktop and set it on fire? If you happen to be running Linux, you’re in luck. Jaw-dropping 3D desktop effects first came to the Linux desktop by way of the Novell sponsored Compiz effort which got started over a year ago. An open source community fork of that effort called Beryl is now moving beyond its base, taking Linux desktop effects to the next level.

Just for the record I do have beryl installed on my laptop running Mepis and all I can say it darn it can keep in entertained for hours just playing with the options and watching things spring back from the compressed state that I had pulled them into, in other words yes pretty, needed no. Baldy

Source: Beryl: Eye Candy For the Linux Desktop

Many times a simple screencast showing how to do something by using a series of screenshots in sequence in a video can explain what paragraph after paragraph of words cannot. Linux and a few open source applications make the job of creating such…

This is a good basic look at how to get this done,trust me the first time I tried to do I got so lost I just quit. Take a look and see if it won’t help you, Baldy

Source: Screencasting with Linux

{mosimage} EAST AMWELL, N.J. – Mike Strizki lives in the nation’s first solar-hydrogen house. The technology this civil engineer has been able to string together – solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks, and a piece of equipment called an electrolyzer – provides electricity to his home year-round, even on the cloudiest of winter days.

Mr. Strizki’s monthly utility bill is zero – he’s off the power grid – and his system creates no carbon-dioxide emissions. Neither does the fuel-cell car parked in his garage, which runs off the hydrogen his system creates.

It sounds promising, even utopian: homemade, storable energy that doesn’t contribute to global warming. But does Strizki’s method – converting electricity generated from renewable sources into hydrogen – make sense for widespread adoption?

According to some renewable-energy experts, the answer is “no,” at least not anytime soon. The system is too expensive, they say, and the process of creating hydrogen from clean sources is itself laced with inefficiency – the numbers just don’t add up.

Strizki’s response: “Nothing is as wildly expensive as destroying the whole planet.”

Source: Yahoo! News  / Full story

I had to post this .00 for a bill is too darn great to pass over. More power to him and now as long as they don’t start to charge for sunlight and wind he will have it made. Baldy

Source: His energy bill is $0.00

There’s a niche in podcasting that, in my opinion, hasn’t gotten enough attention: podcast novels. What has amazed me is just the incredible quality of the content, which is, like any podcast, free. Often, authors record their own books, and they record them well. Read on for an complete overview of the podiobook universe and some recommendations.

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I would like to offer up a big welcome to our two new users JohnP from over at Dell, and Stibs from over at SaxonOS. I’m glad that you two have stopped in and decided to stay for a while and I hope to be hearing from you both as news develops from your sites.

And no before the email starts flowing in I did not ask them or pay them to stop in here they happened to see a couple of posts related to their products is all. So with that have a good day folks and a better tomorrow.

Baldy

An anonymous reader writes “The Times Online points out a post that Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger, put up on his site recently. In essence, Scoble has moved 180 degrees from his former blogging tone, saying that ‘Microsoft Sucks’. More specifically, he is highly critical of Microsoft’s online policy. In Scoble’s words: ‘Microsoft’s Internet execution sucks (on whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that’s in it to win then I don’t get it. … Microsoft isn’t going away. Don’t get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the Internet? Come on. This isn’t winning. Microsoft: stop the talk. Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where’s the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo’s Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?) That’s how you win.’”

Jeeesh after all these years I have to say this is the first time that I have ever agreed with the man. Maybe there is hope for him after all, Baldy.

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Source: Scoble Bites The Hand That Fed Him