Blog Archive October 2007

Monthly Archives: October 2007

Wal-Mart to sell $200 Linux PC

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: October 31, 2007 at 3:42 pm

You heard that right, $200 for a PC running a variant of Ubuntu called gOS. I just read this in the Chicago Tribune a little while ago, and then proceeded to the website to read THIS. The variant of Linux on the gPC is called gOS and is derived from the popular Ubuntu variant. It’s [...]

Posted in Personal | 20 Comments

Opening an Access DB

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: October 30, 2007 at 10:53 am

I am currently working on a DB API for a Java application, and one of the requests was to be able to query Microsoft Access Databases. OK, no problem I thought. I could easily open up these databases with OpenOffice.org Database or even Kexi. WRONG! Neither of them would open or even import the database. [...]

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Request for Kubuntu users

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: October 27, 2007 at 11:11 pm

If you are a Kubuntu user then we have a very small request. Currently, the space on the Kubuntu CDs are next to nothing, which means that it is darn near impossible to add more applications to the CDs themselves in order to keep them on a single CD. After our recent OpenWeek sessions, one [...]

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