The Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client is discussing refocusing their internal resources in a new direction and possibly relying more heavily upon the global community to provide leadership and innovation for the project. There is speculation this is motivated by a desire to drop Desktop software and code only for “cloud” (Internet server) based services. I am not comfortable…
Author: John Nash
Mr. Nash is an experienced systems analyst/programmer and business manager who believes in giving back to the community through producing open source software.
Group Editing using Linux / Emacs
Good post. http://technomancy.us/162 We’ve found SSH, tmux, and Emacs to be a great combination for this. The host prepares his machine with a new user created just for the purpose of swarming, and everyone is given the username, hostname, and password to log in over SSH. $ ssh swarm@zuse.local $ tmux attach Once logged in,…
It’s coming — just as I said. $89.99 Tablet for sale now
Not stunning, but functional. This is just an indicator of what is coming in the tablet market this fall. The price on this seven inch tablet is advertised at $89.99, including shipping. ASUS and Google just teamed up to release their Nexus 7 too, for $199, and the reviews are good: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-review/. I feel that…
How to TURN OFF Google Plus Event Invite Notifications
Google Plus has just started having Event Notifications. A person can send to you an invitation to participate in one of their events. However, not everybody welcomes this new surge of email and posts! To stop the Invite Spam, Click on your name ni the upper right corner, then Account Privacy. In your account privacy…
Pastiche
When blogging on Goggle Plus or FaceBook, I also pass on links to magazine articles that I considered interesting enough that a wide range of those following my posts may also find interesting. I do not consider this scrapping, rather it is pastiche: a musical, literary, or artistic work that imitates the style of previous work or is made up of…