Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX. I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. So you could have done that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. I still haven’t figured out how to get higher resolution on my laptop screen, but that’s mostly due to lack of time trying to get it to work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. And, guess what?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

In Kubuntu, the distribution of Ubuntu I had installed, the WPA-enabled Network Manager isn’t installed by default (or at least it seemed not to have been installed when I did it – could have been my fault.) Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! Directories were shared.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

You’re working in R, writing in RStudio on a Ubuntu machine, and your data are such and such collected during an in vitro observation. That means other researchers move on, build their own thing, and further reinforce the silo system.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

One person with a laptop can now accomplish what used to take a large team of engineers. of the top million web servers’ operating systems are Linux. Similarly, Kubernetes is trending to become the de facto operating system for modern, cloud-native applications. For good reason.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The new Dell XPS 13, the best laptop of 2020 so far, is getting a refresh. It’s a Linux-based device and the first laptop to come preloaded with Ubuntu 20.04 Dell is also offering a free Ubuntu 20.04 Dell has announced new refreshes to its XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1. The XPS 13 starts at $999; the 2-in-1 starts at $1,249.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This means that the application will run the same way, no matter where the Docker container is deployed — whether it’s on your laptop, a colleague’s machine, or a cloud server. This setup lets me run a Linux environment, specifically Ubuntu, on my Windows PC. I’m using Visual Studio Code. Check PySpark version print(pyspark.

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