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Comment on 300th News Story by Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » A Chance To See How Much “Openness” Matters To The Non-Geeky

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:11:03 +0000

[...] This is Linux Loop’s 300th news story. [...]

Comment on Live Review of OpenSuse: Friday, June 20 At 3:30 PM EDT by Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » A Future of Instant-On Cloud Computing

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:03:31 +0000

[...] All of this could come to be reality in the future, perhaps even the not-so-distant future. Think about it. Web 2.0 applications are already competing with almost every desktop applications you can think of. UMPCs are taking off fast. After all, can you think of a major computer company without a UMPC? Apple, HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, and tons more all have them. And, finally, many of these companies are adopting an instant on Splashtop or Splashtop-like system. The technology is all here. And it runs Linux. Live Review of OpenSuse: Friday, June 20 At 3:30 PM EDT [...]

Comment on Interactive Group Distro Review by puptentacle

puptentacle — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:53:41 +0000

Just found your blog tonight through Linux.com. This sounds like a fantastic idea. I’d definitely be interested. I’ve bookmarked the site and will check back to see if this will become a reality.

Comment on Interactive Group Distro Review by Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » Would More Expensive Linux PCs At Wal-Mart Work?

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:32:44 +0000

[...] Hartely’s first suggestion is that Linux PCs sold should not use such low-end hardware. At first this makes sense, but if you add higher end hardware, the PC gets more expensive. The problem with this is that the $50-ish price saving you get from Linux is much less relavent if the PC costs $1000 than if it costs $200. That might be fine if someone was looking for Linux, but most Wal-Mart shoppers are probably just looking for a good deal. Perhaps a better solution than adding more expensive hardware is to use a less resource-intensive Linux distro such as Xubuntu or DSL. It would certainly be interesting to see a stripped down Linux compete with Windows Vista. Also, if you are interested in a live group distro review, please vote in the poll by clicking on th… [...]

Comment on Interactive Group Distro Review by Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » Microsoft Continues to Lose OOXML Ground

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:10:48 +0000

[...] Microsoft may yet manage to pull out of this situation and get OOXML approved. But today’s news makes it seem just a little more likely that OOXML will fall by the wayside and Microsoft actually will adopt ODF as I discussed in an earlier post. That would be the better outcome. Of course, the future is hard to predict and something completely different might ultimately come out of this. It looks like we will just have to wait and see. Also, please check out the information about the live, interactive, group distro review. [...]

Comment on Interactive Group Distro Review by Linux News from Linux Loop » Blog Archive » Linux’s Chance to Leap Ahead of Apple And Microsoft

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:01:56 +0000

[...] So what will Linux be doing well Apple and Microsoft are essentially standing still? The short answer, I hope, is: running. There are two reasons why Linux will not have to take time off for a “maintenence release.” First, Linux has not made mistakes such as dramatically increasing resource requierments. Second, even if some people (even an entire distribution) decide to work on only behind-the-scenes stuff, new features will continue to flow in from projects that are moving ahead. No one project or person can stop Linux innovation. Because of this, I am hopeful that Linux will be able to push ahead of Microsoft and Apple as they stand there correcting past mistakes. Anyone thinking of the tortoise and the hare? Also, please check out the information about the live, interactive, group distro review. [...]

Comment on Upcoming: Photo Management Software Review by Sherwood Botsford

Sherwood Botsford — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:11:16 +0000

Just as people make a distinction between an editor, a work processor and a desktop publishing system, so some distinction
needs to be made in photo management.

Before I would call a program a PMS I would ask:
1. Does it scale gracefully? Even a personal photo collection
can easily get to 100,000 pix in a few years.

2. Does it handle offline media? Can it CREATE offline media?
Can it keep thumbnails of offline media online so you don’t have
to keep shuffling disks?

3. Can in use ITPC and EXIF meta data encoded in the images?

4. Can it it repurpose ITPC and EXIF fields for your own use?

5. Is it easy to assign keywords, tags, descriptions?

6. Can you bulk tag images? Can you bulk tag fields that don’t
currently have an entry. (E.g where you haven’t entered a
specifric description for your trip to mexico, can you:
masstag path/to/mex/trip “default desc = “2007 Mexico Trip”

7. Does the program have a graceful way to deal with other programs that don’t honor exif and iptc fields? (Photoshop)

8. Does the program have a way to deal with derivations.
If I copy foo and crop it for publication, can the management program track that foo2 is derived from foo, and hence will share most of the metadata.

9. Does the program cope with external programs that move
images within the file tree?

10. Can the program recover from database corruption?

11. Does it handle most of the available image formats including
camera raw files.

12. Can it use multiple folders for repositories so that you aren’t limited to a single disk?

13. Can it work with multiple users?

14. Can rights be delegated at a fine scale: A top end PMS
should be able to have a rights scheme such as:
Adminstrator: Has all rights.
Uploader: Can enter images into the database.
Owner: Has all rights to a set of images.
Editor: Can modify the image.
MetaEd: Can modify the metadata.
Copier: Can make a copy of the image outside the database.
Viewer: Can look at the image.
None: Has no access.

This scheme should be setable so that rights are granted on a folder/class of images basis.

Thus, if I’m the advisor for a school yearbook, I can grant
Uploader status to the Mike, Susan, and John, who are the photographers.

They will automatically be owners of the files. They, or myself
as administrator can grant meta-data of the Basketball game to
Greg, who’s the sports editor, and Copy+Edit to the layout crew
to make copies, and crop them.