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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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How to Learn More and Study Less The title of this post sounds impossible right? Despite this, I didn’t actually spend much time studying. Using some of the techniques I’ll describe, I’ve been able to become better, you also can … Continue reading
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X.Org 7.3 New Release Date X.Org 7.3 has been announced delayed by release manager Eric Anholt. It seams there are 7 bugs that needs to be fixed before release so we must wait until September 5th for new X.Org to … Continue reading
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Power of Information 2007-09-02
This week on the Power of Information, Derek and I discuss digital cameras and compact flash cards, secure digital (SD), Sony Memory Sticks, and all the other flash memory on the market today. What can you use it for, what are the differences between them and what are these “high-speed” cards that are being offered. Are the high-speed cards really faster and do you really need one? All this week on the Power of Information. Continue reading
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Open source booming in K-12 education Can open source succeed where Windows and the Mac have failed? I’m talking here of K-12 education. An eSchools report says open source spending is growing 70% per year, and will be up 800% … Continue reading
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Mono developer brings the Ribbon interface (as in Office 2007) to Linux New GTK# widgets created by a Google Summer of Code participant enable Linux developers to create applications with visually attractive toolbars that resemble Microsoft’s Ribbon paradigm.Check out the … Continue reading
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Christians Versus Harry Potter
It seems Christians (whom I would consider “my people”) are still tackling the Harry Potter issue with every movie and book release. Fortunately they have run out of books to complain about but we still have two more movies to get through and we can expect that Christians are going to continue to complain about them. Continue reading →