Last time i left you, I had helped my grandmother get accustomed to some of Firefox’s great features and how to use the AOL web-mail interface. Well it has been a few months since then and I was finally able to get my grandmother to, “take the plunge!” We agreed that she would buy a new computer from me and if she did not like it, I would install Windows on it instead. I figured fair enough and went to work.
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I received an email thismorning informing me of a mistake:
Linotype Fonts, File 0013950: Stephen Tanner
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! Please remove this link!
Dear Sir or Madam,
Dear Mr. Tanner,
I am writing on behalf of Linotype Corp. /Linotype GmbH, Du-Pont-Straße 1, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany. We recently have been informed by our customers that you are offering on following site:
http://stephentanner.info/public-share/fonts/
Linotypes typefaces without our authorization among these the following:
Palatino
Please note that Linotype GmbH/Linotype Corp. is the trademark/patent holder of these typefaces. The use of any of Linotypes trademarks and patents, without our written consent, is prohibited. Therefore, we kindly ask you to inform us why you think you are authorized to offer this typeface, alternatively where you regularly license this font.
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Microsoft sent a TechNet newsletter to my immediate boss saying it was a “…special bonus edition of TechNet Flash featuring content specifically selected to inform and ease your Windows Vista deployment.”
Now in the first sentience of the TechNet newsletter, they admit that this is selective data rather than an unbiased information. Now given Vista’s track record, lets be honest, unbiased facts that promote Vista are few and far between. “…content specifically selected to inform…” I’m guessing that Microsoft does not trust me to not look at all the mountains of information showing the exact opposite of what they are trying to sell me. Well lets take a look at this information and break it down piece by piece to see if there is some real information sprinkled on top of their Vista propaganda.
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From Mozilla Labs:
Weave is a project to integrate web services into Firefox by allowing users to securely share their data with other users and 3rd parties.
If you have ever used either Foxmarks, Google Broswer Sync, etc… then you already know how helpful such extensions can be.
The main reason for these extensions is to sync your bookmarks (and in Google’s Browser Sync much more) and store it off site at some server, and then when you use your computer at work, or a different one around the house, all the bookmarks match up. This way you never have to double bookmark stuff, or email yourself at your personal email address, or write down a web address just to access it when your somewhere else.
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There have been more than a hand full of articles titled Yes My Grandma Can Run Ubuntu Linux orUbuntu for Grandma or even The Great Grandmother err I mean Girlfreind Experiment. These are all added proof to why GNU/Linux (mostly Ubuntu specifically but don’t forget Fedora and openSUSE and all respective derivatives) is slowly becoming more of a social “norm” among average computer users, curious consumers, small and enterprise businesses, and grandmothers alike (well at least those who have educated grandchildren!). Continue reading →
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