Microsoft creates a device that bypasses windows security.

I just love when companies do this kind of thing under the umbrella  of  public safety or the law. I wonder how many computers have had this device used on them with out proper warrants (cause that never happens). So tell me again why people use Windows or trust Microsoft?

PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free.

Ok not open source and not Linux but free is free, PDAmill is giving away all of it’s Palm games for free. The bad news is that will not be developing for the palm and that’s too bad cause they make some nice games. So go get your palm and start the download fest.

The Rocketers find Open Source Rocket Software

Behold the proud rocketers of New Mexico.

Here we prepare the launchpad, please note tangled wires.

No skimping on safety as Senior launch coordinator is as far as he can get from launchpad.

A perfect launch if you squint you can see the second stage separate

Top of the line 10 year old recovery vehicle

Had a great time spending the afternoon launching rockets, so we decided if we could find some open source software to help us reach for the stars, and we did.

Lawndart is an open source model rocket simulator for Linux.

Go get a rocket and go have some fun.

Ubuntu 8.04 the party continues.

As promised I’ve posted more pictures of the New Mexico Hardy Heron release party.

It’s really been a great year, we started with just two of us and now we have over 30 active members, official status, and even have 2 Ubuntu official members with more on the waiting list. I’m real proud of what we have accomplished with the LoCo and can’t wait to see what we do next year. If Friday nights party was any indication it’s going to be a good year.

Click here to see what we did at our party…..

New Mexico Hardy Party Huge success

Hardy Release Party was a huge success we had over 25 people show up from all walks of life to celebrate the release of our favorite Linux distribution here is just a few pictures of the event.

Good food, lots of talks, lots of installs. I made 35 disk and they were all gone. W00T!

Great info on Hardy

lifehacker

If you’ve flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now.

It’s a Hardy Party in New Mexico! So you green or Red

We have two kinds of chili (peppers)  in New Mexico and you can tell allot about a person on if they like green or red chili. If you hear someone say Christmas they like both.

All the details

April 25th,2008 Ubuntu 8.4 Release Party
Ubuntu 8.04 Release Party That’s right, our second release party, and our first as an official Ubuntu LoCo!
Where: Flying Star — Acequia De Corrales, at 10700 Corrales Road
When: Friday 4/25/08 at 6:30pm until 9:00pm click here for directions.
Check out the location here
This year we are doing it in style and have a room reserved.

Linux on the desktop, your time has come.

Yesterday, as if you didn’t know was the release date of Hardy Heron Ubuntu 8.04, and once the servers cooled down and the torrents where seeded it was pretty easy to get a copy. My son who is 10 was chomping at the bit to upgrade his computer, a trusty old Inspiron 5100. So I decided to let him install without any help from good ol’ dad. Not only did he install it no problems at all, the one glitch he did have was handle with out a hitch as well. To use our wireless network he has an old linksys usb wireless adapter which had never been supported by Ubuntu and to the displeasure of by son 8.04 is no exception. In a move that made this dad as proud as if he ran in the winning touchdown in the championship game, he pulled out the windows driver disk and installed Ndiswrapper and got his beloved computer on the network.

Next my son installed wine, just because he loves scratch it’s a great little programing language but no Linux version (come on MIT you know better than that). It took him all of 25 minutes to go from nothing to programing, all of this without asking me one question.

It sure looks like Linux is ready for the masses, none of this talk about a learning curve, none of this talk about not being able to run applications. It’s ready and it really is up to us to make it happen.

OOXML I told ya so!

Wow, read this and you will start to see why the ISO is meaningless.

What can you do with open source software?

So here I am setting at my computer working, playing, and creating. I’m updating a web site using a great tool for the job Kompozer after I’m done with the updates I need to ftp the changes up to my web host using another fantastic tool FileZilla. Enjoying music all the while as I work, I use XMMS for that. I need to change some graphics time to fire up gimp. Just got though reeding an email, thunderbird is perfect for that. Plus I’m writing this on wordpress. I run all of this on Ubuntu. So tell me why in the world would I do it any other way? This marks my first full year off of Windows and I could not be happier. Oh and when I’m done working it’s time to fire up Beyond the red line the fourth mission is still kicking my butt