Name The Next Apple Product
Yesterday, CNET had an article about the rumored new tablet computer from Apple. They're running a poll for the suggested name of the new computer. As of this writing, "iDon'tCare" is the leading suggestion with 36.5% of the vote. Read more
Ubuntu Makes It To Primetime
Ubuntu is Goode
Tonight is the first time I caught the new animated comedy TV show, The Goode Family on ABC. The Goode Family was created by Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, and King of The Hill fame. The ultra-liberal, vegan, Goode family have an adopted son who is a white South African named Ubuntu! They do mispronounce is as You-bun-too, but it's cool none the less. Read more
Get a Jump on Jaunty Jackalope
The official release of Ubuntu 9.04 - Jaunty Jackalope is fast approaching. When it's released on April 23 you can be sure that Canonical's servers will be getting slammed. That means the downloads are going to be slow. The good news is that they just let loose the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04. There should be relatively few changes between this version and the one that will be released on the 23rd. If you update your system to this version now, you'll only have a few updates to apply on the 23rd. Read more
Dvorak Rings Death Knell for Microsoft’s Business Model
John Dvorak has an article on Marketwatch, (posted yesterday), that claims that the new fast boot, embedded Linux options offered by Asus and Phoenix Technologies mark the start of Microsoft's decline.
Users will use these fast booting options out of convenience and get there first exposure to Linux. Once they realize that they can surf the web, listen to music, watch movies, and maybe even edit word processing documents just as easily, then they will start to realize that there really are viable alternatives to Windows and MS Office. Read more
Microsoft to Release Windows Linux!
I was looking today at the packaging of my new Sabrent 3.5" internal card reader and noticed something very interesting on the front of the box. There is a series of gold dots on the front of the package listing the compatible operating systems. Read more
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