Dawning Valley

Women Who Tech

Seeded on Fri May 8, 2009 8:04 PM EDT (womenwhotech.com)

Seeded by Zap

Some of the most gifted folks in technology are women yet they are rarely quoted as experts by the mainstream media and blogs. Furthermore women are significantly underrepresented on panels at major technology conferences.

technology, women

KDE 4.1: What to expect

Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:14 PM EDT

By Andy Min

Cross-posted from Dawning Valley

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technology, kde, kde4, kde-4, linux, open-source

Five Reasons Ubuntu Is the #1 Linux Distro

Fri Jul 4, 2008 3:28 PM EDT

By Andy Min

Ubuntu is, according to DistroWatch, the #1 Linux distribution. That's a huge feat in itself. However, once you realize that Ubuntu is only three and a half years old, the feat is much bigger.

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technology, ubuntu, linux

Why Is Proprietary Software So Bad?

Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:49 AM EDT

By Andy Min

One of the biggest arguments in the Linux world rages around proprietary software (software restricted by license and/or price). The majority of the Linux users out there are for pure FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).

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technology, software, open-source, free-software, oss, floss, foss

Land of the Freeware: Glide OS, a young online operating system with a few quirks

Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:00 PM EDT

By Andy Min

I suppose it's fitting that my first review here at dawningvalley.com is about Glide OS, since the first article I wrote in my life was about the same product.

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technology, dawning-valley, glide, glide-os, webos, online-operating-systems, ajax, web-2-0

Announcing Dawning Valley

Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:21 PM EDT

By Andy Min

There are several types of technology blogs and websites on the internet. There are the multi-million dollar sites sponsored by mainstream media that try to appeal to the lowest common denominator and bores the rest of the world.

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technology, dawning-valley, tech-it-out, blog, blogging, bloggers, blogs, review, analysis, computers

A Cloudy .Mac

Mon Jun 2, 2008 2:58 AM EDT

By Kyle Baxter

A year ago, during his interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at All Things Digital, Walt Mossberg noted that Apple had let .Mac stagnate. Jobs acknowledged it, and promised that Apple would be "making up for lost time" in the near future.

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technology, apple, mac, dot, iphone, wwdc, jobs, steve

andLinux: A great way to virtualize Linux inside of Windows

Fri May 30, 2008 12:09 PM EDT

By Andy Min

Recently, there's been a lot written about virtualization. Ever since Steve Jobs announced the move to Intel, there's been huge flurries of excitement as commercial virtualization products like VMWare and Parallels and open-source products like VirtualBox improved their offerings.

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technology, linux, gnu-linux, andlinux, colinux, virtualization, virtualbox, vmware, parallels, ubuntu

No Hands: Using Voice Recognition in OS X

Thu May 29, 2008 12:44 PM EDT

By Kyle Baxter

I first watched Apple's Knowledge Navigator concept video a year ago, and have watched it many times since. Every time I watch it, though, I still get that child-like wonder feeling in my stomach, the feeling that accompanies a rare thought: "This is the future."

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technology, apple, os-x, leopard, future, voice, recognition, knowledge, navigator

Trey Parker, Life Lessons, and the Mac Community

Mon May 12, 2008 12:43 PM EDT

By Kyle Baxter

While watching the first season South Park DVDs Friday night, I found that — to my delight — Trey Parker and Matt Stone offered mock introductions to each episode.

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technology, south-park, trey-parker, mac, apple, community, rand, ayn, work, love

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