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Gregory T. Donovan (CV)
PhD Candidate
Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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Tag Archives: FOSS

stop the madness and just switch to an open-source browser

By gtdonovan | Published: 12.16.2008
Yet another major security flaw found in Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s proprietary web browser. Via the BBC: Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their [...]
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we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…

By gtdonovan | Published: 05.04.2008
From Chopra & Dexter’s Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, p173: Jacques Ellul imagined an iron cage constructed of technology (Ellul 1967), but never the possibility that the cage could be unlocked by its prisoners. We began with a historical note on hacking: the significance of hacking should now be clear. Hackers [...]
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a research blog: open source, open process.

By gtdonovan | Published: 07.13.2007
This research blog has been setup to assist me in preparing for my second doctoral exam. This blog will hopefully afford me a space where the scholarly content of my reading list can interact with popular culture as well as my thoughts and experiences. In addition, this blog will help semantically organize the information I’ll [...]
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