From The Front End - ZDNet Edition
My ZDNet version of my blog. Will feature news my mad opinions and relevant posts or partial quotes from my blog - http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk
Topics: Wed Standards, Tools and Services for Designers, Photography and graphics, Accessibility and other Front-End Webdesign related info.
Wednesday 23 April 2008, 10:23 AM
New Ubuntu out tomorrow
With the new Ubuntu coming out tomorrow and looking like it will be the best and most user-friendly free Linux release to date is it time to make the switch over?
I have dabbled only briefly with various Linux distros and can hardly say I've given it a fair chance. With my Desktop system on it's knees due to a corrupt partition table (my fault for trying to repartition a drive while it was running vista at the time) I am planning to format and give Ubuntu a try.
I have been a staunch Windows user due to bad experiences whenever I've tried other OS (the worst was using Mac OSX) and so I hope that this time I will not be disappointed.
Tuesday 8 April 2008, 5:14 PM
Tech for all ages?
With new budget/low power laptops targeting education sector and a younger and younger audience will tech gadgets soon replace the rattle and skipping rope for our next generation of children?
Seems that last generation it wasn't uncommon for parents to have to get their 5year old to programme their VCR for them. Will the same be true for this seemingly tech savvy generation? Will our grand children be configuring our servers for us by age of 10. "oh grandad you've got your raid set up all wrong" - lol
Here are some clips of my daughter making use of some of my gadgets at at ages 9-16months.
Using an iPhone (16months)
Using my old Laptop (9months)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ANYKMfClivk
This one although not using any gadget is checking the TV guide and letting us know what she wants to watch on TV this week
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OQ9iGlPGGhU
:)
