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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Wubi Ubuntu Installer

For those of you looking for an easier way to install Ubuntu you can try the Wubi Ubuntu Installer which promises to make dual booting an Ubuntu machine as non-invasive as using a virtualised machine yet as responsive as using a native install. Supposedly Wubi creates a file on the harddisk that to Linux appears to be a regular filesystem, and to windows appears to be a regular file located at c:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk so you can essentially run Ubuntu without having to create a partition for your Linux install to live in. Installing and uninstalling is therefore almost as simple as installing and deleting a regular windows program. Many of you will have realised that I am not the biggest fan of virtualising the desktop, running a Linux virtualised under Windows just feels abhorent to me, so anything that supports you in getting Ubuntu up and running with the least amount of blood, sweat and tears is a good thing. If anybody tries this out, please tell me how you get on.
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