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The latest issue of Scot’s newsletter has a nice collection of information to help answer the question “Will my hardware work under Linux?” It’s got links to getting Live CD distros, hardware compatibility databases, and more. It’s all part of the Linux Clues addition to the newsletter, both the newsletter and various forums and websites…
I got an email over the weekend from Jacob Rheuban, one of the founders of a new news aggregation site called Newgie. The site promises to be a smarter news portal and RSS feed directory. From their press release: Newgie co-founders Jason Windebank (29) and Jacob Rheuban (29) began work on the new product six months ago…
She mentions a round of layoffs as an example of breaking trust, and I’m glad she included that. All too often, when a round of layoffs occurs, senior management will return to talking about the culture or set of core values they expect all employees to follow without ever acknowledging that it’s different now. You can’t just return to talking about the importance of teamwork and diversity when you just canned 10% of the team as if nothing happened.
I present you with Google being banned in China (link via Dane) and the Greeks banning all gaming, apparently they are unable to tell the difference between electronic illegal gambling and video games, so in their infinite wisdom they’ve decided to ban all electronic games. (link via Online Blog) More wonderful examples of how world…
Wow, I went to Blogger this evening and caught a glimpse of their changes. They now support individual archives and comments. Pretty cool. And the layout of the site is entirely different. It’ll take some time to get used to, I’m sure, but it’s nice that they’re adding features, if nothing else! I’m not sure…
It’s been awhile since MailChimp retired their popular, and extremely useful, plugin that gathered up comments, likes, retweets, etc. from Facebook and Twitter and showed them right here on the blog. I continued to use it simply because tbhere is no other plugin that does both and does it so seamlessly. I knew, eventually, I…