Jacob Christensen

• Charlie's Diary: I get mail: especially about Linux
  To cut a long story short: for an Eee, I'd recommend a version of Ubuntu, tailored to support the Eee hardware. Ubuntu is another Debian derivative, but this time vastly smoother and more polished than Xandros — and developing rapidly, with a huge user base and active updates to the latest applications. I'd also recommend the Ubuntu Netbook Remix user interface — an application launcher and desktop that does much the same as the Xandros desktop, but is actually useful. This isn't part of the standard Ubuntu distribution, and for full hardware support on the Eee (for example, to ensure wifi, ethernet, and sound work properly) you'd normally need to install some extra drivers. However, the Eee is so popular that there are a couple of sub-distributions out there especially tailored for it.

  These are (in no particular order): EeeBuntu, and Easy Peasy (formerly Ubuntu-Eee)

  (tags: software opensource linux eeepc)
• Do elite economics departments produce the best papers? | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  his column measures the quality of university economics research in Europe and the UK by concentrating on within-journal rankings of influential articles. The UK and Europe are doing relatively well, and top-level research output is not concentrated at half a dozen world-famous institutions. Science-funding policies by European governments should reflect this diversity.
  (tags: economics academic bibliometrics)
• Did the Swedes nationalize? What does that mean, anyway? – Interfluidity
  (tags: sweden economicpolicy economy politics finance banking)
• The crisis and how to fix it: Part 2, solutions | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  Frozen credit markets prolong the recession and keep us on the edge of financial meltdown. The ineffectiveness of existing policy to kick start credit markets and bank lending is due to investors’ fear of “unknown unknowns”. Ordinary restructuring-and-liquidation recipes won’t work until the government provide insurance against such systemic events. Recent actions by the US and UK get it partially right.
  (tags: economics finance)
• The crisis and how to fix it: Part 1, causes | vox – Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
  In a pair of Vox columns, one of the world’s most respected macroeconomists suggests that the consensus view of the crisis’s causes and cures is flawed. This first column focuses on the crisis’s deep causes. Global excess demand for safe assets played a role in building the ‘accident waiting’ to happen. Now, investors’ fears of unknown unknowns – Knightian uncertainty – is why the waiting mountains of cash are not acting as “stabilising speculation”.
  (tags: economics finance)

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