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Linux, for the masses?

Posted on November 7th, 2007.

Ubuntu 7.10 [Credit: ARS Technica] The recent release of the Linux distribution Ubuntu has many wondering, is Linux ready for the masses? Version 7.10 of Ubuntu’s desktop Linux is definitely a Linux release that’s easy to use, navigate, and learn; especially if you’re computer literate. But what about those that aren’t? A friend referred to this release of Linux as, “Grandma ready,” in reference to its ease of installation and use. Yet, as good as it might be, I can’t help but think that there is still little chance of Linux, Ubuntu or not, being widely used as an operating system.

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MythTV: so it begins.

Posted on November 2nd, 2007.

MythTV: so it begins. Originally I had planned on purchasing a TiVo, complete with its monthly service plan, once the Series 3 HD DVR was released. However, when that day finally came, the price tag of $800 for 20 hours of HD recording made me decide that having a home HD DVR was just a fantasy. While relating my woes of household electronic despair, a friend recommend I look into MythTV, a free, open-source, Linux based program, and build my own HTPC.

As it turns out, I had recently decided to downsize my personal computing. I had a desktop, a Linux based server, and a laptop. I switched from using my desktop full time to using my laptop, and had plans to use the desktop as a new Linux server, getting rid of the old one. The desktop machine was certainly powerful enough to handle MythTV, and I could still use it as a personal file server and downgrade. So, I figured, why not give it a whirl!

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It’s “green”, weighs 5,000 lbs, and gets 60 MPG. Wow!

Posted on November 1st, 2007.

Johnathan Goodwin (Credit Christopher Griffith / Fast Company)There’s a great article in the November issue of Fast Company about Johnathan Goodwin, the “Motorhead Messiah,” who has been doing some pretty interesting things with diesel engines, turbines, and alternative fuels. Goodwin is doing things to cars that the big auto manufacturers have been saying again and again are “impossible.”

An excerpt from the article reads:

Goodwin leads me over to a red 2005 H3 Hummer that’s up on jacks, its mechanicals removed. Like most hybrids, it’ll have two engines, including an electric motor. …[It] will burn biodiesel, a renewable fuel with much lower emissions than normal diesel; a hydrogen-injection system will then cut those low emissions in half.

Oh, yeah, he adds, the horsepower will double–from 300 to 600.

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