Archive for December, 2005

PCJacking

Friday, December 9th, 2005

I haven’t had time to advertise about this until now, but I had fun, a few days ago, doing what I called “PCJacking”.

The idea is simple, and is based on the assumption that most people buy Windows because they just don’t know other stuff exists out there. I am speaking, of course, about Linux. How can I participate in letting them know about Linux ? Well, by going to places where they usually buy their PCs, and sticking Linux Live CDs (namely, Knoppix) inside the machines there !

So here’s how it looks, pictures, how to do it yourself and all.

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Discovering music : Pandora

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Wow. This is great ! You can listen before buying. Discover new music for free, and don’t dive into the dark depths of P2P music download (not that I am really embarrassed when downloading music from people who already make a fine living out of it, but P2P mostyl means crappy-quality-and-hard-to-find music, as far as I am concerned). Tell it what artists you like and listen to these artists plus other stuff that it thinks you’ll like.

It doesn’t have a whole lot of Jazz artists (most of these days’ popular stuff makes me throw up), but the idea is really brilliant !

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