“Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux?”
Microsoft has apparently ticked off a lot of people in their attempt to force everyone to switch to Vista, besides me.
Archive of entries posted on 16th July 2007
Swarm Theory in Software Development
There’s a neat article in National Geographic on how “swarm theory” can be used to solve real-world problems. The short Boing Boing excerpt is worth a read if you’re at all interested in software development or intelligence research.
High-Speed Internet Connections
I just received notice from our cable Internet provider that they’ve boosted our office connection speed, from 5Mbps to 7Mbps. This is the second such notice that we’ve gotten since we moved in here; a few years ago they bumped it up from 3Mbps. There will probably be a slight rate increase soon, to go …
CNET reviews Ubuntu 7.04
The CNET review was prompted by Dell’s inclusion of Ubuntu on some of it’s systems. It isn’t entirely complimentary — it complains about missing wireless and webcam drivers, and that the timekeeping wasn’t accurate, but I haven’t seen any of those problems myself. It also complains that the system isn’t always able to recover from …