Links
- Friends and I sometimes have trouble explaining IT, IS & some of the basics of computers to less enthusiastic users. People that don't do IS do not understand the non-tech issues to balance with people, data and business needs. Nobody is born knowing tech stuff and how to deploy it. There are simply gaps in understanding technology that amazingly some people have been able to avoid due to lack of exposure and no good teacher.
- People use software on operating systems that control hardware.
- Software or programs are written as human readable source code or "code" using (mainly) text files in a programming language using a text editor by iteself or inside an integrated developer environment (IDE). A revision control system like git is often used for a number of reasons. Many people today see their first code by using the "view source" feature of web browsers to see the HTML, CSS and Javascript (mozilla, webplatform) of web pages.
- While graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are common now, underneath numerous layers of software computers understand binary codes created from program source code. To really learn how computers work the command line interface is still often the most power, efficient and network accessible way to interact with a computer despite their apparently unhelpful appearance. By learning just a few commands command lines are far less intimidating to novices.
- Hardware has RAM, Disk, CPU and Network and runs an operating system.
- Linux/IBM Brooks from IBM spot about 2000 (0:30), Linux/IBM kid from IBM spot about 2000 (1:32)
- Red Hat Way from Red Hat spot 2009 (1:25), Truth Happens from Red Hat spot 2008 (3:31), Business Solutions from Red Hat 2008 (3:36)
- Computers - Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems from South Park youtube 2008 (1:47)
- New OS Looks - Windows, Mac, Linux os from Novell spot youtube 2007 (0:41)
- How the Internet Works youtube 2009 (4:47)
- OLPC OLPC Mission 1 2008 (1:38), Mission 2 2008 (1:38), youtube channel
- Specifics
- Nixie on Filesystems from youtube (5:44)
- Browser vs. Search Engine from youtube 2012 (5:50)
- software or applications
- Helping your neighbor (collaboration), crowdsourcing, culture
- Internet in Society by RSA Animate and Evgeny Morozov from youtube 2009 (10:58)
- open source economics by Benkler at TED 2006 (1:10)
- network effect wikipedia
- Moore's law wikipedia
- open source culture from youtube 2012 (1:11)
- Story of Linux from the Linux Foundation youtube 2011 (3:39)
- software licenses explained from Red Hat 2006 (6:41)
- Did You Know? 4.0 from youtube 2009 (4:46)
- Did You Know? 6.0 from youtube 2014 (3:04)
- How Linux is Built from the Linux Foundation youtube 2012 (3:13)
- TCP/IP history from youtube 2009 (8:09)
- free culture movement wikipedia
- TED video of Spencer Wells talking about the background leading to his project and the Genographic project, scientifically building a common family tree for all of humanity
- Who: Spencer Wells
- When: The Journey of Man book written in 2002
- Why: because it matters to us all
- Where: very clearly beginning in Africa approx 60,000 years ago
- How: Genetic (DNA) Geneology
- Video of Bruce Baikie, founder of Green Wifi at olpcsf.org on solar cloud infrastructure with part 2.
- noisebridge.net and SF billboards
- Dr. Douglas Engelbart's website and wikipedia entry, Stanford MouseSite & youtube video of 1968 demo and NMC video
- Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms Community
- Silicon Valley Public Access Link (SV-PAL) is a tax exempt ISP started in 1994 that still serves a small audience in Santa Clara County today. I am a co-founder. Our goals were 1. provide Internet 2. provide training 3. help local organizations and local governments establish an Internet presence. The Internet raced past our efforts and similar Free-Net efforts in 1995/1996 as the Internet began to be adopted.
- For Linux resources please see dvlug.org
- Kodokan Judo
- Habitat for Humanity East Bay
- Grid Alternatives of Emeryville
- United States Amateur Radio
- Compassionate or Nonviolent Communication (wikipedia)
- Co-Dependents Anonymous
- EZ-12 Wifi Reflector aka. Windsurfer is made from a printout, manila folder and aluminum foil to form a parabolic reflector for an external antenna
- Using the Life USB Creator on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx even thought it's not packaged yet. I used this for creating Sugar on a Stick.
- The Bootloader used by Ubuntu is GNU Grub2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) which can be used to boot from an ISO file. This is very useful to boot from multiple ISO files on a single USB flash drive.
- Ubuntu Releases
- golang - resources for myself and others interested. This has grown recently.
- Dreamfish was an amazing organization.
- Groupware is a page I put a lot of time into comparing software packages
- IPv6 describes how the Internet continues to work now.
- Customer State Machine thanks to saastr (saastr.com, yt) and Phil Libin, CEO at airtime.com (was mmhmm until 2025, incubated by all-turtles.com, all turtles wiki).
Last update: Jan 11, 2026
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