Vista vs. The Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10)

i might be biased towards Linux because i got a taste of a multitasking, multiuser SCO Xenix 386 in 1989 – when PCs was still dominated by Microsoft MS-DOS. but here’s an interesting article of ZDNet’s Robert Goodwin comparing his 7 PCs running on different platforms – 3 XPs, one Ubuntu 6.06, 3 Ubuntu 7.10 [...]

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Ubuntu for the office: Who needs Vista?

With the recent release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is pushing hard to existing Windows XP users to upgrade. I have come across many articles and blogs who are not willing to upgrade and they recommend instead to try out Ubuntu Linux. I do not have to detail all the pros and cons between them. [...]

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Windbelt – low-cost power generator for remote areas

One of the 10 most outstanding innovations released by Popular Mechanics magazine is the Windbelt, invented by Shawn Frayne. It’s a brilliant innovation using a commonly known toy during our childhood days, the “pahugong” that makes our kite hum like a drone. It’s so simple. When I saw it, “Why I didn’t think of [...]

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One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC)

I come across this article Lessons To Lean from the OLPC from slashdot which details the features of the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) unit. OLPC is an education project founded by Nicholas Negroponte to produce very affordable laptops at $100 – cheap enough to spur “Buy 1 and Give 1″ program for the [...]

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