I can almost hear the ka-ching! of the slot machines now! Just kidding. For reasons of health we are moving to a home we bought in Las Vegas at the end of this week; the static IP has already been secured with a local ISP and the good news is there will be 4x the [...]
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Can we dispense with the Grandma test and do some real good?
Posted by JeffC Published in General, TechnologyPerusing LinuxToday I am seeing YAGULA (Yet Another Grandma Uses Linux Article) and I am thinking to myself that we are going at this all wrong. Honest, I am delighted that someone’s Aunty Foo or Grandma Bar uses Linux…really. Unfortunately this example of use has become so much a part of our general litmus test [...]
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