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FAS IT Testing Out New Windows 7
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| He added that he would not recommend that
| Harvard switch its computers over
| immediately because it uses so many clients.
| Uchiyama also mentioned that Ubuntu, a
| competing operating system, is due to
| release a new version today, which gives FAS
| IT another option. Harvard currently uses
| Ubuntu on several Science Center computers.
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=529808
Unconvinced by Windows 7? Ubuntu 9.10 debuted today!
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| In addition to the new desktop interface, a
| Karmic Koala Netbook Remix and Server
| Edition (featuring Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud)
| were also released today.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Unconvinced-by-Windows-7-Ubuntu-910-debuted-today/1256851025
Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever
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| Having run the upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10
| beta, Iâm not too worried about any snags.
| Weâll see how my freshly configured Joomla!
| install holds up after the upgrade, but
| since I was already using the most up-to-
| date versions of MySQL, Apache, and PHP,
| there shouldnât be any issues there, either.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3303
Recent:
Harvard using Drupal
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| I recently learned about the fact that the Berkman Center for Internet and
| Society is using Drupal.
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http://buytaert.net/harvard-using-drupal-2
Harvard Law faculty votes for 'open access' to scholarly articles
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| In a move that will disseminate faculty research and scholarship as broadly
| as possible, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted last week to
| make each faculty memberâs scholarly articles available online for free,
| making HLS the first law school to commit to open access.
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http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/05/07_openaccess.php
Mini Review: Open Source in Harvard Business Review
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| As the CEO's quest continues, she begins to worry that in many people's eyes
| her company is seen as the overly powerful corporate enemy with an iron grip
| on its IP. Then she worries about how her developers will react. She fears
| that they desert her if she opens up all of their code to the community. At
| the same time, these same developers are ragged from trying to get out the
| next release. But then again, she wonders if perhaps the open-source model
| would make their lives easier? One fault in the article is that she never has
| a conversation with her developers to ask their opinion. The discussions are
| always among the executives. (How typical is that!). The story closes with
| KMS' executives finding a YouTube video of a bunch of people playing a tune
| on competing devices much more sophisticated and cooler than those from KMS.
| The article suggests that they are open-source competitors that have not only
| copied the idea of the original KMS devices but have improved them in ways
| the firm never even contemplated, leaving the executives a bit stunned.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/mini-review-open-source-emharvard-business-reviewem
Related:
Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty
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| In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the
| Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the
| University a worldwide license to make each faculty memberâs scholarly
| articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided
| that the articles are not sold for a profit.
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/02.14/99-fasvote.html
Harvard Research to Be Free Online
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| Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by
| its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14arts-HARVARDRESEA_BRF.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Protect Harvard from the RIAA
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| One can easily understand why the RIAA wants help from
| universities in facilitating its enforcement actions against
| students who download copyrighted music without paying for it.
| It is easier to litigate against change than to change with it.
| If the RIAA saw a better way to protect its existing business,
| it would not be threatening our students, forcing our librarians
| and administrators to be copyright police, and flooding our
| courts with lawsuits against relatively defenseless families
| without lawyers or ready means to pay. We can even understand
| the attraction of using lawsuits to shore up an aging business
| model rather than engaging with disruptive technologies and the
| risks that new business models entail.
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=518638
Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Implements
Largest IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer in U.S. Academia
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| The system would currently rank among the top 50 fastest
| supercomputers in the world, according to the latest
| statistics gathered from the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061019/0174738.html
Harvard starts teaching open source
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| As with all Harvard case studies, there is no resolution to the dilemma -
| just the open question (pun intended): To open source or not to open source?
|
| Not open sourcing, as the case study implies, is a losing game. There is
| simply too much interest in open communities created to develop software in
| the image of those communities, and not in any single vendor's image.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9916323-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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