The Popularity of Windows Vista
I’m apparently not the only one that feels like he’s being railroaded into using Vista, and is looking for alternatives.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
Just how do you pronounce Linux?
Linniks, line-iks, leeniks… all three seem to have their adherents. I use the third pronunciation myself, because long ago (and long before I started using the OS), a friend of mine said that that was how Linux Torvalds pronounced it (and he was right, as you can hear for yourself). I figured that if anyone …
The Jungle, Part III
The jungle continues to widen. Tread cautiously, people.
“Laser innovation speeds up hard disks”
“Researchers in the Netherlands say they have come up with a way of using lasers to speed up magnetic hard drives by a factor of 100.” Neat! And we’ll need that too, with the sizes of disks that are on the way.
The New Transformers Movie
We went to see this last week. It’s surprisingly good — and the theater was surprisingly packed for it, even as early as we got there. They even managed to work Soundwave into the story well, something I didn’t think would be possible. (I don’t think they ever mentioned his name, but he’s an integral …
The Roomba Works Well!
Well, we’ve had our Roomba for over a month now, and I know the question that’s on everyone’s mind right now: how well does it work? It’s time to answer that. It. Is. Freakin’. Awesome. It’s still picking up a TON of stuff every time we run it, which we’re doing every few days now. …
Wireless Under Attack?
When I got my wireless networking operating under Linux a few days ago, I was very surprised to find that I had a small but constant amount of inbound traffic on it whenever I used it, measuring 4K to 6K a second. Changing to different channels made no difference. I’d never seen this under Windows, …
Finally, Someone Who Understands!
GoddessJ sent me a link to a review of the iPhone that finally said aloud the things that I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks. (Warning: if you’re an iPhone phanboi, or an Apple lover, this article will tick you off. The rest of the world — all six of us — will probably …
The OS Wars II: Paranoia for the Masses
I love encryption. As a kid, the occasional “secret decoder ring” I’d get out of a box of cereal or Cracker Jacks was a treasure worthy of King Tut himself. In my high-school years I studied how to make (and break) ciphers on paper, and I went on to study computer encryption as well — …
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“Scientists find drug to banish bad memories”
As featured in British author Peter F. Hamilton’s A Quantum Murder and the movie Paycheck, the technology for wiping specific memories is on it’s way to reality. This could be a very good thing, in some cases.