Debian looks to launch lenny in September
The Debian project’s maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the “testing” or “Lenny” tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes’s checklist for September 2008: “Release lenny!”
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Like all Debian releases, Lenny is named for a character in Pixar Animation’s seminal movie, Toy Story. You may recall lenny as a pair of wind-up binoculars that are usually among the last toys to scuttle safely back to their “right place” prior to Andy’s arrival.
— desktoplinux.com
put the music back into primary schools
PM – Tuesday, 22 July , 2008 18:39:00
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SIMON LAUDER: The director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute, Professor Barry McGaw, is overseeing the development of a national curriculum which will be limited to English, maths, science and history.He says music should be on all state school curriculums and students who don’t have access to music lessons have been let down.
BARRY MCGAW: I think there’s sometimes too much pressure to do the obvious core, more instrumentally valuable things, and we talk too much about core skills in literacy and numeracy.
And there’s evidence sometimes that in more of the disadvantaged schools at primary level, they spend most of their time on literacy and numeracy and that’s not an appropriate use of time.
SIMON LAUDER: So there’s an indication here today that schools should be doing something they’re not. Are we in fact letting states off the hook by having non-government organisations fill that hole?
BARRY MCGAW: Well, states in some way respond to community expectations and there’s lots of demands in the media to focus on literacy and numeracy.
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Interview Available as an MP3 file
Unified Communications
Melbourne University are making changes from the bottom up with enterprise solutions under consideration to address their “walled gardens”. Applications such as hosted messaging, peer-to-peer video applications (such as Skype) are a challenge to a standards based open source recommendation (SIP, XDDI etc)
– Notes from a Unified Communications Conference – June 2008
( 2008-Jun-28 ) [AARNET Blog]
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