In a previous article I explained why the title above has meaning for me. I’d like to dig a bit deeper, so you may want to read that article first if you missed it. If you take the client’s perspective in the above quote to its logical ending, I think you can make the argument that everyone is a designer. Most of us don’t think that way. But, after 30+ years in the industry, I do.
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Contributed by Isauro Michael Balod Napolis
Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4
In the last lesson we learned about what made Block Party tick. In this lesson, we will turn the same PyGtk codebase into a Sugar activity with only minimal modification of the core code. As always, the code for this lesson can be found at:
http://dev.laptop.org/~j5/BlockParty_tutorial/block_party_lesson_2.tar.gz
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Filmed and edited by Simple Coat Productions.
Episode 02 of this series documenting the One Laptop per Child project focuses on the activities built for the laptop. Activities, not applications, since the machine is designed for children and applications is a decidedly adult word.
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Contributed by Eugene Teo
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Welcome to the second installation of The open palette. Last time, we focused on creating orbs and 3D text using Inkscape’s new blur filter. This month, we’ll be focusing on creating brushes for the Gimp using Inkscape.
If not, perhaps that’s because you haven’t registered for the Red Hat Summit in San Diego May 9-11. And therefore are not able to visualize yourself sipping a margarita on the sandy shore.
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A bane of the system administrator’s (SA) job is on-call work. You either end up lugging a laptop or making a dash for the nearest machine when things go wrong. . It would be nice to have something that was a bit more portable but had enough tools to fix most issues. The Nokia Internet Tablets (N770 and N800) offer a mostly complete Linux environment and are quite portable, but can they really offer SA’s more freedom?
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Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 was released on February 15th, 2005. This report takes a look at the state of security for the first two years from release. We look at key metrics, specific vulnerabilities, and the most common ways users were affected by security issues. We will show some best practices that could have been used to minimise the impact of the issues, and also take a look at how the included security innovations helped.
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Donald Knuth was wrong.
While it’s true we still need ‘better documentation of programs’ it isn’t true, or it is no longer true, ‘that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works of literature.’
Huh?
