Don’t diss the PC, man.
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Random thoughts of a Harley Davidson riding biker geek.
Don’t diss the PC, man.
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Vista may be what Microsoft sells, but XP remains popular. August 18, 2008 (Computerworld) More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to the older Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, a performance and metrics researcher said today.
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If this has any validity to it then it’s INCREDIBLE NEWS!!!
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Australian scientists are hoping to cure leukemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis after their breakthrough discovery of how to stop killer blood cells growing. The team has unlocked the secrets behind the protein which controls the way the blood cancer cells spread when it is damaged [...]
At the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, a 451 Group analyst said that companies are adopting free, community-driven Linux distributions like Ubuntu and CentOS. We look at what this means for the commercial Linux landscape and the future of Ubuntu.
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The latest OpenSuse brings out SUSE from the dark.
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Another follow up from a previous posting.
Only a week after the bad press coverage regarding the Linux-related bugs in a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (Which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly released test patch that fixes the bulk [...]
This is one of the best reason’s to never have supported a company that offered DRMed music. Say, “So long” to hundreds if not thousands of dollars of your hard earned money that you spent on it. You’d better find a way around that DRM if you want to keep your music, that you rightfully [...]
So in short, the deal is, you get the card, but the only way to use it is to rent a driver to which you have an incomplete access, thereby making your fruitful use of the card consistently dependent on Nvidia and, quite obviously, therefore limiting the control you as a supposed owner of the [...]
Collection of IRC clients for Linux
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This movie looks, well… incredible. Enough said. Coming June 13, 2008.
What we’re going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we’re not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy,
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This sucks since I just bought a Toshiba HD DVD player at Wal-Mart for $148.88 with 7 free movies. Fortunately, I have my Playstation 3 for Blu-Ray duties.
HD DVD fans, we hate to do this to you, but it’s time we called it. HD DVD is now officially on Engadget deathwatch. We haven’t put anything [...]
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/01/16/sun-mysql-linux-tech-enter-cx_ag_0116sun.html?feed=rss_popstories
Sun Microsystems elbowed into the enterprise database market Wednesday with the announcement of a proposed $1 billion acquisition of MySQL, an open-source database software company. The deal, which Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz calls the “most important acquisition in the company’s history,” makes Sun one of the first major public companies to offer open-source software [...]
With the holiday season upon us, I wanted to remind everyone DO NOT feed your dogs chocolate.
http://www.gsrne.org/Chocolate.htm
Every holiday season, veterinarians find an increase in accidental chocolate poisoning in our canine companions. Many people are still unaware of the danger chocolate poses for their furry friend even though it is the most commonly encountered [...]
Kieth Olbermann is right on target as ususal. The neocons hate government and want to detroy it by starting wars and spending money until the government ceases to function. Mr. Bush has destroyed the constitution as we knew it. The lies, the corruption, just blows my mind. It’s time to impeach [...]
This has gone on too long and we can’t sit back and let major news corporations determine the fate of this once great nation. We must change policy and keep the mainstream media from running and ruining our lives.
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Not only is Windows XP Service Pack 3 alive and kicking, but Microsoft also managed to leak details about what the refresh will contain. The Redmond Company’s policy when it comes down to future releases of the Windows platform is to gag all details. Windows
XP SP3 is old news for Microsoft.
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Well, it’s been just a few days over a year that I’ve been blogging and it feels like I’m blogging to no one. My web stats show quite a bit of traffic but I’m sure most of it is Web Spiders and spammers. I enjoy posting about things I find interesting but some days it [...]
Why won’t they submit to Linux? Take the Plunge.
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Available for download now, OpenOffice.org 2.3 incorporates an extensive array of new features and enhancements to all its core components, and protects users from newly discovered security vulnerabilities. It is a major release and all users should download it.
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