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- Using Email at McGill university: Ongoing suffering of an open-source user, year 9
- National Carbon Price in Canada: give private industry entrepreneurs the clarity they crave [Sep 2016]
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- Ubuntu on Lenovo Thinkpad T450s
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Using Email at McGill university: Ongoing suffering of an open-source user, year 9
It’s 2020, and the world has changed. Well, yes, there’s that, but I meant that the world of email has changed. For reasons I won’t speculate and rant about here, the problem of spam has not been solved, and email … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Alpine, Alpine, GNU/linux, McGill University, Microsoft, software, Uncategorized
Tagged alpine, email, GNU/linux, McGill, Microsoft monopoly, software
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National Carbon Price in Canada: give private industry entrepreneurs the clarity they crave [Sep 2016]
With the Trudeau government already struggling to keep up with its numerous promises, many environmentalists will follow the Green Party’s Elizabeth May and decry the Liberal government’s embrace of Harper’s weak and cynical carbon emissions targets. Quite incompatible with the … Continue reading
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Keeping your fingers and toes warm in cold weather: a guide for endurance skiers with poor circulation
In recent years I have had severe trouble keeping my finger tips and toes warm while outside in winter. I blame it on too much cold-weather camping and letting my extremities get numb in my younger days, but it may … Continue reading
Posted in Alpine, outdoors, Product review, skiing, Uncategorized
Tagged Canadian Ski Marathon, cold hands, cross-country skiing, Reynaud's, winter clothing
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Ubuntu on Lenovo Thinkpad T450s
Lenovo’s T450s is another piece of high-production-volume hardware from a vendor with a fairly good reputation for Linux support … but a host of serious problems under Ubuntu’s flagship “Long-term-support” operating system. I’d love to be in touch with others … Continue reading
Posted in GNU/linux, hardware, Product review, Ubuntu, Uncategorized
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GNU/Linux at McGill: Calling all users! Please join a support discussion board
A theme among my posts since 2011 has been the challenges of being a GNU/Linux desktop user at McGill University but outside the departments (Math, Physics, Computer Science?) which support the OS. I believe those departments have eschewed the central … Continue reading
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