Google Apps has a lot to offer but most important to our district is the ability to offload our email traffic on to the trusty Google servers.  I know Google is good but we need to make sure that everything works the way we want it to and that users are comfortable with using it.  [...]

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I was looking around for some wallpaper for Ubuntu (Human is pretty cool but I was looking for some spice).  I found a wallpaper mocking Microsoft with a Penguin carved into the grass of the default XP wallpaper.  While searching I came across Emerald Theme Manager.  It gives you some nice effects like the ones [...]

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Yet again the prodigal blogger has returned.  This time I have a fairly decent excuse.  I changed jobs.  I’m now running the technology for Addison Community Schools.  So far things have been great and I will have plenty of opportunities to put open source software to use.
One of my first tasks is to evaluate the [...]

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