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 …
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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 …
Continue reading Get a Jump on Jaunty JackalopeJohn 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 …
Continue reading Dvorak Rings Death Knell for Microsoft’s Business ModelI 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.
Continue reading Microsoft to Release Windows Linux!Today, Google launched their “Free The Airwaves” PR campaign. Their goal is to open the frequency spectrum whitespace that will be left when TV goes fully digital in Feb. 2009 and make it available for universal wireless internet. The FCC has many ideas about what this whitespace could be use for. From the Free The …
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