StudyWorx passes it first large scale test

Подарък иконамека мебеликониStudyWorx went live as the infrastructure for the School of Biblical Studies in Montana on Sep. 21st 2010. Today after five months of everyday use by real staff and students I am happy to report that the system is working well. Having actual students pounding on the program day and night has revealed quite a number of previously undiscovered issues, but none of them fatal and as of last night all serious bugs have been cleared from the issues list.

Obviously work continues and the list of desired features and optimizations continues to grow. However, it has been an encouraging test. The feedback from both staff and students alike has been positive and I am currently looking for more help to take this program to the next level.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all those that have helped make this first roll-out a success.

{:> Tom

Using Unbuntu Christian Edition – a Review

The last time I saw this distribution discussed it degenerated quickly into a flame war that had nothing to do with the merits of the distribution. Recently I saw that there was an update to the distribution. I had a bit of time so I thought I would take it for a spin and see what it was actually like. While this review is brief I hope to cover the major features that differentiate this distribution from Ubuntu its parent distribution and rate its overall usefulness.

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Why Free and Open Source Software is important to a global organization

“Everybody uses Word, why use anything else it just causes trouble”.

This sentiment is very common today and is often repeated in one form or another as a justification to use Microsoft Products exclusively.

To be fair there are organizations where this may in fact be the path of least resistance and in some cases may even be the right answer.

However…

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