Rays of LightThe musings of Ray Trygstad: IT/Web guy, educator, Naval officer, world traveler and sometime preacher.
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
Going High-End in Media Relations: Quoted in Technology Review and the Wall Street Journal
Yep, it's true. In recent weeks I have been quoted in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal, and just last Monday in the online edition of MIT's Technology Review. I guess it comes of being articulate and credible (not to mention charming and humble); or maybe just of having a good media relations staff at IIT (far more likely). In the Wall Street Journal I appeared in an article about the validity of Wikipedia entitled “Trusting an Internet Encyclopedia” [subscription required to read] dated 06/17/05. I evaluated several article in areas of personal expertise and commented on them; I did ensure that the interviewer was fully aware that I am a regular contributor/editor of Wikipedia and have written some articles almost in their entirety. In Tech Review, I was quoted in a article entitled “A Quantum Leap in Cryptography” by Karen Epper Hoffman, dated June 27, 2005, discussing potential uses of quantum cryptography in the real world. Why me? Because I have tracked technology trends and have a record of public speaking on emerging technology. Thursday, June 30, 2005
Maslow and Why I Blog
Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who postulated that human beings have a hierarchy of needs that sort of define why they do the things they do: Michael Lopez, writing in Highered Intelligence, reminded me of Maslow's Hierarchy, as it was sort of beaten into me by the Navy and re-enforced in my Master's program. The Navy is big into organizational theory and motivation and lay great store in Maslow. All of this got me to thinking about why I blog. I sure don't do it consistantly enough (a source of great frustration to me) to build any kind of a steady audience, and even when I was blogging every day—which I kept up for a couple of months—I don't know if anyone ever read the thing. So why do it? Well, it seems that it is part of my self-actualization needs. So welcome to Ray Trygstad's Self-Actualization Fellowship. Buckle your seat belt; it's going to be a bumpy ride!
Boot-from-CD Linux and UNIX (repeat)
PC Magazine has a new feature in the June 7 edition called DIY (for Do It Yourself). The first DIY:Software feature is about how wonderful Knoppix Linux is and all the many ways it can be used (the article is not on their Web site, though). PC Mag columnist John Dvorak first wrote about Knoppix in August 2004—don't they even read their own columnists over there? Anyway, I have been maintaining at least 14 different boot-from-CD Linux and UNIX iso images on the download server for our students for quite a while now (alas, not publicly available). Here is a far-from-comprehensive list of some of the most popular boot-from-CD Linux and UNIX distributions: Aurox® Live (RedHat/Fedora) http://www.aurox.org/en/ The Knoppix with QEMU version will even autostart and run Linux in it's own built-in virtual machine in Windows. Very cool. You can see a much larger list of boot-from-CD operating system versions at The LiveCD List http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php. (BTW, I do know my comments don't work. I'm working on it.)(and yes, this is a repeat posting; I want to keep it near the top for the benefit of my Linux+ class...) |
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