I was watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart at home last night, and Jon Stewart's guest for that show was Dan Rather, the former CBS Evening News anchor who had come to promote his new book. They talked about Rather's childhood, the perception of a liberal bias in the media, and how politicians have outsmarted TV.The Daily Show with Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cDan Ratherwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on FacebookI would like to take a brief moment to discuss what Rather had to say...
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Oh my goodness. I am done with half of my undergraduate career at MIT. This is crazy!This past semester was even more crazy than the one before that. The great thing was that my classes this semester were way more interesting on the whole and will be far more useful especially towards the UROP that I will be doing over the summer.For now, though, I'm not thinking much about my UROP. I'm thinking about what I'll do to relax and unwind at home. And by the way, one of the things I had originally intended to do was write a few more reviews, but because...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
There was no "Featured Comments" post last week because there were no posts the previous week. This past week, there were two posts that got quite a few comments, so I'll repost a few of those. Review: SolusOS 1 "Eveline"Reader DarkDuck said, "The paragraph about Live system should be in bold red colour. :-) Have you been able to check which repositories are used in SolusOS? I would thing they're not Debian standard because of Skype."Commenter Bernard Victor had this to say: "I have switched from Linux Mint, as it is much easier on system resorces....
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
I have more time this week than usual to do reviews like this, because I am studying at my own pace for final exams next instead of frenetically finishing problem sets each night. Today, the subject of my review is ROSA.You may have heard of ROSA before, but you may not be sure where. Almost 9 months ago, I reviewed Mandriva 2011 "Hydrogen", and that version of Mandriva was developed in conjunction with ROSA Labs, a Russian Linux development group. Since then, Mandriva seen quite a roller-coaster ride and is now essentially on life support. It...
Monday, 14 May 2012
I've gotten a couple requests to review this distribution, and I've wanted to do it, but for a while all that was being released consisted of beta versions and release candidates. Now, however, version 1 "Eveline" has been released in its final form, so I am reviewing that now.Main Screen + Cardapio MenuSolusOS is supposed to be a user-friendly, stable distribution based on Debian 6 "Squeeze". It features a customized GNOME 2 that looks rather reminiscent...
Sunday, 6 May 2012
There was one post that got a few comments this past week, so I will repost most of those.Review: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin"Reader DarkDuck said, "Mine findings on Kubuntu 12.04 are rather different. I am preparing my review of it. :-)"An anonymous commenter said nothing more than "700 megabytes?! Wow."Reader Brian Masinick had this experience to share: "I originally started with Kubuntu 12.04 Daily Build from a 02/25/12 build. A couple of times, I ran into intermittent issues where dialog boxes would appear, indicating that some back...
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Main ScreenWell, it's that time of the year again. Canonical just released the spring editions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu (and with those have come releases of the officially-recognized derivatives Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Mythbuntu). Today, I'm reviewing Kubuntu, for a few different reasons.The first is that this is the last version of Kubuntu that will be officially maintained by Canonical. After the announcement about that over a month ago,...
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