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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 …
My Linux-using friend tosses around phrases like “free as in beer” or “free as in speech” a lot. He’s tried to explain what they mean several times, but I seem to have some kind of mental block about them because I could never figure out what he was talking about… talk is cheap, and beer …
Do you remember the major stink a while back over the DRM-crippled Sony CDs? Apparently Sony has decided to try to get some of their money back from the company that sold them the spyware packages. Frankly, I think they deserve each other.
I’m apparently not the only one that feels like he’s being railroaded into using Vista, and is looking for alternatives.
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 continues to widen. Tread cautiously, people.
“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.
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. …
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, …
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 …