No Vista in UK schools; make your own file server; play media with Elisa
January 25, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Links, The Free World.
Here’s proof that governments could get a clue! It’s official UK schools told to avoid Vista. The news article says that a government agency is opposed to upgrading to Vista because of the costs of technology involved. Aside from that, they recommend looking at open format files instead of the proprietary formats associated with Office 2007. Linux advocates, it’s time to get your feet moving and share your Linux skills and knowledge in UK!
As for great how-to’s: Making your own home file server is probably something that you thought about before but weren’t sure how in the world you’re going to actually do it. Worry no more because How to Forge has a good guide to get you started. It has screenshots too so you really could see how it goes.
If you love multimedia then news about Elisa might be something you’d love to hear about. It’s said to have these features:
Elisa offers all of the basic features one would expect from a media center application, including support for video and audio playback as well as image slide shows. Elisa allows users to browse and load content from local drives, but also provides support for remote content—like videos from YouTube, audio from local network DAAP shares or Shoutcast streams, and images from Flickr.
A better user interface is something good to hear about. However the app is still not perfect and you can hit some snags while navigating through the menus. 
But it’s worth a try! You could read more about Elisa here.
