In the midst of greater than normal chaos at work, it occurred to me that I haven’t done much with the latest Ubuntu, which is 9.04 (Jaunty Jackelope). They owe me some chocolate because I came up with jackelope way before I heard they had picked it. Since I use the OS almost exclusively, we’ll [...]
I’m all over the place when it comes to technology….
I like my computers fast and my audio through tubes.
I like analog tape to record but guitar amp emulators are pretty nifty toys.
I’m trying to go green but nothing rides like a big old Land Yacht.
I’ve got several web pages, a blog, a smart phone, a [...]
According to a report, Firefox gained 46.4% of the browser share, while different versions of IE dropped different amounts in February.
I don’t know about you, but I think the folks at Mozilla have a lot to be proud of. I think the concept of browser plugins is sheer genius. While I prefer the speed of [...]
Emboldened by the reviews of other bloggers (both of them), I downloaded the latest alpha of Ubuntu 9.04. I decided to take the safe route and install in a virtual machine. Here are the particulars:
host machine: Xubuntu 8.10
VMplayer: latest
vmappliance: live cd boot
The initial attempt had the 2G virtual hard drive that comes with the appliance. [...]
Concern over Britain’s Soldiers:
Concern over self-harm in forces
Veterans at ‘higher suicide risk‘
AstraZeneca’s weight gain and diabetes side effect cover up, and the sleazy Seroquel sex scandal
CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes
Must be off with Cheney’s emails…
US ready to aid Mexico drug fight
Run Mexico, RUN!
Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid
Wow…
Putin’s Party Sweeps Regional Elections
Declares himself Maximum Presidente [...]
Just a short while ago it was announced that Ford would have computers in some of their cars and that the computers would have a Microsoft operating system. So naturally I got to thinking about the end result of this:
you will have to reboot your car at least once a day
you will not be able [...]
As you no doubt have read, I’m having hard drive problems with my laptop. It’s not so much a problem as a total failure but sometimes we like to stay optimistic (or use Classic British Understatement<tm>, even though I’m not British).
The hard drive continued to sit there and confound Spinrite. I believe that after a [...]
I have a running rant about Flash being worthless and the symptom of a much larger problem with design: give them blinky lights and they’ll be happy. Last night I went to watch a YouTube video and the entire laptop froze. SEE- Flash ate my laptop :)
It would not reboot, no matter what I did. [...]
I don’t think I caught on to the fact that today was an unqualified disaster til I was most of the way through it. In spite of the miserable weather (Precipitation Wednesdays), things didn’t look all that horrible. I should have known, though… things were going along too well. When I say well, I mean [...]
According to this article, Palm has pulled the plug on PalmOS.
This is a sad but pretty much expected announcement. Some would argue that Palm gave up on PalmOS a long time ago by using Windows Mobile in places and by actually selling the PalmOS to Access (whoever that is).
Palm is betting the farm on WebOS. [...]
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