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I recently was introduced to Wuala which is another cloud storage service. The free storage starts of with 1GB with the ability to expand up to 3GB if you have friends sign up for the service. Much like Dropbox you need a client to use it. The client creates a networked drive on whatever platform you are using (I use windows at work and Linux at home so this is a nifty feature that I can take advantage of). With the networked drive it’s easy to access your files however you cannot upload to the root folder you have to upload into Documents, Music, Photos, or Videos only. You can create new folders if you wish for files that don’t quite fit into that generalized category.

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I’m testing out Drivel as a blog editor right now as I type this in. I loaded it before Blogilo but couldn’t get it going right away for some reason. It actually took me a while to figure out what I had to use for a Journal type to make it actually work. The options are Live Journal, Blogger 1.0, Blogger 2.0, and MovableType.

MovableType apparently is the only method that will work with WordPress based blogs. Even though I swore I saw it say to choose Blogger 2.0 type in a tutorial but whatever.

Drivel is nice and it’s more native, but lacks the features that Blogilo has for posting media (aka images) and formatting is more of a process than the 1 click you can do with Blogilo.
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Ubuntu is a fork of Debian Linux as we all know, however from this fork we see many derivatives. Some of you may not like the default Gnome desktop or feel the basic install is missing something. Here’s a list of 21 derivatives of Ubuntu that you may or may not know about.

The list of derivatives has been expanding more and more and I am sure I missed some. Please comment if you have any more info on others. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week news spread about the giant company, Google dumped Microsoft Windows off of all it’s machines. Here’s the article from Bangkok Post:

Google said it was dumping Microsoft Windows on all its computers in the company, and switching to Apple and Linux, simply because Windows was not secure; the switch came specifically because Chinese hackers broke into Google machines, and only special employees with particular needs will be allowed to use Windows; otherwise they are stuck with Apple or Linux operating systems.

This bold move on Google’s part poses a lot of questions in tech circles. The biggest is are we ready to move to alternate Operating systems yet? Read on to see my view on all of this.
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