Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
New licences have been announced for Movable Type. The biggest change is a new Unlimited Personal Edition for $99.95. It allows “for an unlimited number of authors and weblogs for personal use”. This is really what people wanted, and why there where huge complaints about the new licence.…
Firefox 0.9 has been released. I liked the theme for 0.8 much better, but Firefox is my favorite brower, especially since Internet Explorer 6 is probably the last new version of IE for a while, and IE 6 has been around since October 2001.…
Well, I stopped running SETI@home on the PC and switched the iMac from the graphical version to the command line version. I really don’t care about watching the fancy graphics or crunching lots of numbers. Running SETI@home is just something for the iMac to do when I’m not using iTunes to listen to my music collection.…
As I noted back in January, my greeneweb.com email address receives a lot of spam and I was using a spam filtering add-on for Outlook Express to combat it. But this seemed to me like mopping up the water but never fixing the problem.…
I just installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking today. While my typing speed was pretty good, considering that I was typing with three fingers, I decided to try Dragon to see if things could go any faster. So far, I’m not impressed. While it seems to be doing a pretty good job, it makes errors often enough make things frustrating.…
I recently started running SETI@home again, first on my Pentium 4 3 GHz and then on my G4 800 MHz iMac. The SETI@ home website says that the the program uses about 16 MB of RAM while running and that above 64 MB will not affect how quickly data is processed.…
This site is called Library Monk, because yes I have been known to dress as a monk on occasion. Ask anyone who in the summer 2002 Genre Fiction class at UT’s School of Information Sciences. The reason I was dressed as a monk then was to talk about my favorite book, A Canticle for Leibowitz.…
In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a number of other national civic organizations, The Pew Internet & American Life Project served as research advisors for a new report finding that public libraries have helped close the digital divide by providing free, public access to computers and the Internet, particularly for people without access at home or work.…