Practical Technology

I know some of you really, really wanted Dell’s first mini-notebook to have a price-tag of $299 and you’re down because the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 starts at $349 with Ubuntu Linux or $399 with Windows XP. Well, just wait, you’re soon going to be able to get it for even cheaper with a 3G [...]

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Debian 5, Lenny, is getting closer to delivery and as part of that, the Debian Live Team has released the first official version of Debian Live.
While there have been live versions, Linux distributions that run from CDs, DVDs or USB-sticks, of Debian-based distributions, Debian Live is the first purely Debian live system. As the [...]

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Sources tell me, OK friends actually, that tomorrow, September 4th, is the long-awaited day that Dell will announce the release of its Inspiron 910 mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04.
Before any Windows business users rush out to spend their hard-earned money on this spiffy [...]

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I like the idea of Google Chrome, a lot. But, then I like a lot of ideas, and then the reality turns out to be another matter entirely. Once in a great while, though, something comes along that lives up to its promise. Google Chrome lives up to its promise.
That promise, as I describe in [...]

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The real Labor Day storm wasn’t Gustav, it was Google’s announcement, by comic book no less, that it was releasing its own Web browser: Chrome.
So why is Google doing this? First, off let me tell what it’s not. It’s not an attempt to kill off Internet Explorer or Firefox. Google just renewed its partnership with [...]

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