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OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sep 10th, 2008 | By Cath | Category: Cath

Exciting stuff, OpenOffice.org 3.0 release candidate 1 is available to download from the website. It is not recommended for production deployment at this stage but it is suitable for use for anyone who wants to help with initial bug reporting, issues or errors.

Anyone wanting to download OpenOffice.org 2 can do so here, it is a great software package and it …
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Happy Birthday to GNU

Sep 3rd, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Software

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Happy birthday GNU :) Thank you to all the GNU hackers that write free software, thank you for giving me so much freedom when I use my computer and thanks from my friends who I share it with :D

I’m not familiar with Stephen Fry though I enjoyed his video. Rather then repeat what others have written, I’ll just include some info below.

Check out GNU and FSF audio and …
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BadVista campaign

Aug 6th, 2008 | By Cath | Category: Blog, Cath, Software

In January the Green Party and Greenpeace issued warnings about the tremendous threat posed to the environment by the disposable computer mentality promoted in Microsoft’s $500-million Windows Vista marketing campaign. Vista has steep hardware requirements which in turn means that to use it, most people will have to throw their current computer into a landfill and buy a new one.

Vista is essentially designed to monitor what people do, and in …
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ACTA threatens free software

Jul 18th, 2008 | By Cath | Category: Blog, Cath

ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Mexico and New Zealand, with Canada set to join in the near future.
Although the proposed treaty’s title suggests that the agreement deals only with counterfeit physical goods (such as medicines), what little information has been made available publicly by negotiating governments about …
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A Documentry To Check Out

Jul 3rd, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Law, Video

This looks interesting.

Update:
You can watch Alternative Freedom and download Alternative Freedom.



Warrington School opts for free software

Jun 22nd, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software

I was just about to jump into bed and thought I’d read the network news aka planet talo and saw Leighs post “More progressive action from New Zealand’s South Island“.
Just go read his post and leave a comment.
Otago Daily Times article: “School opts for free software“.
Sweet dreams.



Creative Commons Australia Mayer and Bettle Sequel

Jun 4th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris

I’ve been looking at free software for hosting your own site similar to youtube. Im leaning towards Plumi and have also thought about using phpmotion. I spend way to much time looking at the sites using the software and watching lots of videos about all kinds of interesting things. I thought this one was pretty cool….
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Worlds best paint software for kids

May 29th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Software


Watch the Tux Paint video on Youtube
. Or download high resolution(810×630) Tux Paint video in Ogg, Avi and Flash format.

Tux paint is Free software. Visit the Tux Paint home page and download your free copy today.

Bill Kendrick has lots of awesome software. Check out New Breed Software - Games and stuff for Linux, …
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Open source tools in Secondlife - Builders Buddy

May 18th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Education, Software, Tutorials, Video, secondlife, virtual world

I’ve been thinking about what other useful tools I can introduce to educators in secondlife. Builders Buddy is useful for people interested in building. I put together a small package with a tutorial, you can get a copy of builders buddy in sl. Watch the Builders Buddy video on youtube to see what it is. Probably one of the cool things I didn’t mention was wearing it as …
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Links for 10-5-08

May 10th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris

Can we rescue OLPC from Windows?

Laptop Liberation

RobotCub, RobotCub Consortium

Ubuntu breathes new life into school’s abandoned hardware

MSN Music to shut down, leaving DRM customers in the lurch

Brazil migrates voting machines to GNU/Linux