tag:www.insidesocal.com,2008-04-30:/click//95 2012-01-18T04:01:58Z Technology trends and everyday rebellions, including Linux, a smattering of BSD and the rest of the open-source software world, plus Macintosh, Windows, gadgetry and other bits and pieces of news, information and stuff to gawk at. Movable Type 4.25 tag:www.insidesocal.com,2012:/click//95.221512 2012-01-18T03:56:48Z 2012-01-18T04:01:58Z

With a good percentage of the networked world letting their sites go dark tomorrow to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act and the chilling effect they would have on free speech and expression (with corporations in...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click With a good percentage of the networked world letting their sites go dark tomorrow to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act and the chilling effect they would have on free speech and expression (with corporations in the U.S. able to remove the rights of individuals from tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.219721 2011-12-15T21:09:33Z 2011-12-15T21:12:22Z

I give much credit to the developers who, early on, brought LibreOffice to Debian Backports. Once you add Backports to your sources.list, you can install LibreOffice, which just happens to remove OpenOffice from your system at the same time. I've...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click I give much credit to the developers who, early on, brought LibreOffice to Debian Backports. Once you add Backports to your sources.list, you can install LibreOffice, which just happens to remove OpenOffice from your system at the same time. I've been using LibreOffice extensively in both Windows XP and Debian tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.219636 2011-12-13T19:34:09Z 2011-12-14T19:36:15Z

When you think "free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," I bet CentOS comes to mind. But a look at the CentOS project over the past few years shows a considerable lag between when RHEL releases and CentOS catches up....

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click When you think "free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," I bet CentOS comes to mind. But a look at the CentOS project over the past few years shows a considerable lag between when RHEL releases and CentOS catches up. That lag continues, and it's at 200+ days, according to tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211742 2011-11-21T19:31:12Z 2011-11-22T19:31:43Z

I've been spending time each day working in Ubuntu 11.10's GNOME 3/Unity and Fedora 16's GNOME 3/GNOME Shell desktops. They're more alike than you think. Rather than do things the GNOME way, Ubuntu/Canonical decided to take its own direction with...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click I've been spending time each day working in Ubuntu 11.10's GNOME 3/Unity and Fedora 16's GNOME 3/GNOME Shell desktops. They're more alike than you think. Rather than do things the GNOME way, Ubuntu/Canonical decided to take its own direction with Unity, which is now, like GNOME Shell, built on top tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211741 2011-11-21T19:29:57Z 2011-11-22T19:30:31Z

The more I figure out how GNOME 3/Shell works in Fedora 16, the more I like it. I'm not at the point where I can say, "Oh, it's totally better than GNOME 2," but I'm increasingly able to do things...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click The more I figure out how GNOME 3/Shell works in Fedora 16, the more I like it. I'm not at the point where I can say, "Oh, it's totally better than GNOME 2," but I'm increasingly able to do things the way I'm accustomed to doing in the GNOME Shell tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211739 2011-11-20T19:25:56Z 2011-11-23T16:01:11Z

Responding to Rob Reed's Google+ post on the dark side of huge corporate entities -- read: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube -- controlling what we see and don't see on the Internet, I wrote a couple of responses (instead of one because...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click Responding to Rob Reed's Google+ post on the dark side of huge corporate entities -- read: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube -- controlling what we see and don't see on the Internet, I wrote a couple of responses (instead of one because you can't edit an existing post or comment on Google+'s tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211738 2011-11-18T19:18:03Z 2011-11-22T19:27:10Z

I've traditionally used stand-alone FTP clients like FileZilla and gFTP to interact with the servers I use. Only recently have I decided to start using the GNOME Nautilus file manager's FTP/SFTP capabilities to manage the content in some of my...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click I've traditionally used stand-alone FTP clients like FileZilla and gFTP to interact with the servers I use. Only recently have I decided to start using the GNOME Nautilus file manager's FTP/SFTP capabilities to manage the content in some of my servers. Including my Ode server (a shared hosting account). Rather tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211737 2011-11-18T19:16:52Z 2011-11-22T19:28:18Z

I try to automatically send links to my blog entries to all the social networks on which I maintain accounts (the exception being Google +, which I'm still updating manually). Over the past couple of years, I've had a thicket...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click I try to automatically send links to my blog entries to all the social networks on which I maintain accounts (the exception being Google +, which I'm still updating manually). Over the past couple of years, I've had a thicket of services set up to do this. Some work along, tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211736 2011-11-18T19:15:02Z 2011-11-22T19:28:45Z

Since I spent some time running Fedora 16 with GNOME 3/GNOME Shell via a live image, and I judged it as working well but not as polished in the design department as Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 with Unity, I figured I should...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click Since I spent some time running Fedora 16 with GNOME 3/GNOME Shell via a live image, and I judged it as working well but not as polished in the design department as Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 with Unity, I figured I should give Ubuntu 11.10 a try with its live image and tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211735 2011-11-16T19:12:02Z 2011-11-22T19:29:16Z

I've spent probably more than a year avoiding new distributions, new releases, distro reviews and the dreaded "I ran the live CD of Project X and here's what happened" posts. But I'm in an inquisitive mood. And here is one...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click I've spent probably more than a year avoiding new distributions, new releases, distro reviews and the dreaded "I ran the live CD of Project X and here's what happened" posts. But I'm in an inquisitive mood. And here is one of those "I ran the live CD for an hour" tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211733 2011-11-16T19:10:47Z 2011-11-22T19:11:12Z

http://fedora.org/...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click http://fedora.org/ tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211357 2011-11-15T23:55:07Z 2011-11-15T23:57:03Z

Read my Dailynews.com story about Alan Alda's use of QR-coded wristbands to promote his Marie Curie play at the Geffen Playhouse....

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click Read my Dailynews.com story about Alan Alda's use of QR-coded wristbands to promote his Marie Curie play at the Geffen Playhouse. tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211250 2011-11-14T19:36:28Z 2011-11-22T19:32:45Z

One of the founders of the nascent Diaspora social network has died at age 22. Here is the story from the Associated Press: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the founders of the social networking site Diaspora, has...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click One of the founders of the nascent Diaspora social network has died at age 22. Here is the story from the Associated Press: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the founders of the social networking site Diaspora, has died. He was 22. Nina Fiore, executive secretary in the tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211732 2011-11-13T19:09:08Z 2011-11-22T19:09:55Z

Chromatic, author of "Modern Perl," writes in a recent blog post anybody interested in programming should read, How to Learn Perl, these words to live by: Find something that interests you. Find a way to automate it. Keep a list...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click Chromatic, author of "Modern Perl," writes in a recent blog post anybody interested in programming should read, How to Learn Perl, these words to live by: Find something that interests you. Find a way to automate it. Keep a list of changes or improvements or new techniques you might apply. tag:www.insidesocal.com,2011:/click//95.211114 2011-11-11T21:14:00Z 2011-11-11T21:59:50Z

Just because I'm writing about how I'm editing these videos in OpenShot (including this one a few days ago), don't think that I'm some kind of video-editing expert. I'm learning. And I'm excited about it. Beats the alternative, don't you...

Steven Rosenberg http://insidesocal.com/click Just because I'm writing about how I'm editing these videos in OpenShot (including this one a few days ago), don't think that I'm some kind of video-editing expert. I'm learning. And I'm excited about it. Beats the alternative, don't you think? In the video I just cut today, from footage