“Remind Like Water” is a continuing series of posts exploring the feasibility of using the CLI calendaring program Remind as part of a GTD system. This experimentation is done on a Mac running 10.4 Tiger.
See the Remind Like Water topic (or below) for the story so far.
Perl facts according to perl.org:
Note: I’m doing most of my Macintosh-related writing at O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter nowadays. Here’s my author page over there.
Ubuntu Linux is styled as “Linux for Human Beings”, an appropriate description given its feel-good photography, earthy color schemes, and pseudo-primitive “heritage.” It all works quite well and bespeaks both the importance of unified design branding across all media and of keeping your targeting focused.
It’s also really cool.
As of this writing, my experience with Ubuntu has been limited to research and familiarization — last year, however, I did experiment with Ubuntu (Hoary) on an iBook with more or less success. Read Ubuntu (Hoary) Linux on an iBook.
Just this week (2006/08) I’ve begun my Dapper experiments which, although not exactly successful, is a good exercise: Attempting to install Ubuntu Dapper on an iBook.
That experimental effort continues this year (2006) with plans to convert some PowerPC G4 towers (currently running Mac OS X) into a Linux desktop and a Linux server, using Dapper Drake. Assuming things work out well, which I imagine they will, I will continue later in the year to transition over to Linux for a great deal of my development.
