Richard Stallman, in receiving an honorary Doctorate from Italy's University of Pavia, brought back memories of the basic primary school principle that students bringing cookies to class should bring enough for everyone.

I hadn't intended for this to be a three part series, but it's been pointed out that I didn't cover the make utility and I think it's almost negligent to discuss software development and not discuss make.

Everyone has heard the old saying "lies, damn lies, and statistics", well statistically OpenOffice.org is used somewhere between 0.2% and 22% depending as to where you live. (these statistics can be found at Webmasterpro.de). This leaves a lot of people saying, "Huh?!?". So I will resolve to discuss OOo adoption anecdotally.

An advanced Nagios class, taught online by Mike Weber of CyberMontana Inc, has been scheduled for April 2011.

MIT just announced that it will offer a new class focused on building mobile applications for the Linux-based Google Android. The class is already full and is a small example of how students believe open source is making progress in the mobile industry.

RMS: «A professor is suing students for publishing their class notes. The term "intellectual property" used by the professor's lawyers is a term of confusion and intimidation.»

One of my projects this fall is to take advantage of online "Open Courseware" classes, for personal and professional development. In setting up my own curriculum, I came across a very nice find: a class on 3D modelling based on the (free software) Blender 3D modelling application.

Setting up a network can be fairly quick and easy if you're setting it up with straight Class A, Class B, or Class C network addresses. But, there may be occasions when you would only have a few hosts assigned to a given network segment.

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