Failing to find any free software task manager I could live with, I created my own over the December holidays. I called it “Tody”. It’s a simple GUI app, focused on quick searching, editing, and tagging for tasklists. The file format it uses is identical to the plain text format used by Gina Trapani’s Todo.txt [...]
Category Archives: linux
Free Software for Task Management
2011/12/12 – 2:40 pm
I am perpetually trying out online task management tools. My never-ending quest is to tame the massive sea of things I should be doing at any given moment, both making sure that important tasks don’t get lost in the mix, and to extract a reduction more closely approximating “the most important thing to accomplish right [...]
Mythbusters – UEFI and Linux
2011/11/04 – 9:17 am
A recent blog post about a user who was having trouble installing Ubuntu on an HP machine, sparked off an urban legend that UEFI secure boot is blocking installs of Linux. To calm FUD with facts: the secure boot feature hasn’t been implemented and shipped yet on any hardware. It was introduced in the 2.3.1 [...]
With A Little Help From My Friends
2011/03/12 – 8:53 am
I’ll take Dave Neary’s comments about private conversations to heart. To provide a little historical illumination, five years ago Dave and I founded a group, FLOSS Foundations, as a collaborative mailing list and face-to-face meetings for leaders in free/libre/open source software projects, focused on the community governance and legal structures of the projects rather than [...]
