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ruphus13 writes "Here's another example of 'German Engineering' — The Foreign Ministry in Germany is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to the article, 'this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. "The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year ... Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations," says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry ... "The embassies in Japan and Korea have completely switched over, the embassy in Madrid has been exclusively using GNU/Linux since October last year", Schuster added, calling the migration a success.' The Guardian has additional coverage of the move."
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Just Married. Joi blogs: Mizuka and I just got married. We went to the Inbamura town hall, filed our papers and visited the local Shinto shrine, Munakata Shrine. It's the second marriage for both of us so we decided to keep it pretty minimal. The only non-minimal thing was setting up and taking shots of ourselves... Previously: Joi Ito's Freesouls: a book of CC-licensed portraits of, and ... Best of BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by ... Joi Ito on WoW's project management lessons - Boing Boing Joi Ito remembers Timothy Leary - Boing Boing Joi Ito's NYT op-ed on Hiroshima, Nagasaki - Boing Boing Joi Ito's Takenoko HOWTO - Boing Boing Joi Ito, Dan Gillmor on Korea's blogging scene - Boing Boing...
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Just Married. Joi blogs: Mizuka and I just got married. We went to the Inbamura town hall, filed our papers and visited the local Shinto shrine, Munakata Shrine. It's the second marriage for both of us so we decided to keep it pretty minimal. The only non-minimal thing was setting up and taking shots of ourselves... Previously: Joi Ito's Freesouls: a book of CC-licensed portraits of, and ... Best of BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by ... Joi Ito on WoW's project management lessons - Boing Boing Joi Ito remembers Timothy Leary - Boing Boing Joi Ito's NYT op-ed on Hiroshima, Nagasaki - Boing Boing Joi Ito's Takenoko HOWTO - Boing Boing Joi Ito, Dan Gillmor on Korea's blogging scene - Boing Boing...
Tagi: boing boing, hiroshima nagasaki, dan gillmor, mizuka, shinto shrine, joi ito, bamboo shoots, nyt, timothy leary, ly, howto, town hall, project management, portraits, blogging, lt, marriage, korea, score
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Just Married. Joi blogs: Mizuka and I just got married. We went to the Inbamura town hall, filed our papers and visited the local Shinto shrine, Munakata Shrine. It's the second marriage for both of us so we decided to keep it pretty minimal. The only non-minimal thing was setting up and taking shots of ourselves... Previously: Joi Ito's Freesouls: a book of CC-licensed portraits of, and ... Best of BBtv: Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots with Joi Ito (score by ... Joi Ito on WoW's project management lessons - Boing Boing Joi Ito remembers Timothy Leary - Boing Boing Joi Ito's NYT op-ed on Hiroshima, Nagasaki - Boing Boing Joi Ito's Takenoko HOWTO - Boing Boing Joi Ito, Dan Gillmor on Korea's blogging scene - Boing Boing...
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"South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said. The number of text messages that a mobile user can send out a day has been restricted to 500, down from 1,000."
Tagi: south korean authorities, phes, mobile user, text messages, korea
