June 23, 2010
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I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I hate the telephone. I hate being interrupted when I’m in the middle of writing. I can’t stand mobile phones, although I use them, and I’ve gotten sick and tired … Continue reading
June 16, 2010
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Hardware companies don’t tend to have their own Linux distributions. IBM uses Linux everywhere, but they don’t have their own Linux. Dell will be happy to sell you notebooks and netbooks with Ubuntu or a workstation or server with RHEL … Continue reading
June 16, 2010
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I was very pleased to see Apple’s new Mac OS X Snow Leopard patch this morning. It fixed numerous minor, but annoying problems with my Mac Mini and my wife’s MacBook Pro. It also cleaned up numerous security problems. That’s … Continue reading
June 15, 2010
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Am I the only who finds Forrester analyst JP Gowdner’s blog proclamation that “Office 2010, Microsoft’s latest release, will continue to succeed with consumers” and “In terms of usage and penetration, Google Docs remains a failure” on the eve of … Continue reading
May 18, 2010
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For some reason, we still don’t know why, some Windows 7 installations are deleting Windows 7 Restore Points. Here’s what we know and what you can do about it. One of the few original contributions to operating systems that Microsoft … Continue reading
May 14, 2010
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One constant complaint about the Linux desktop is that it doesn’t have enough games. That’s actually not true. Linux has plenty of games. What these people usually mean is that it doesn’t have their favorite Windows games. Now that’s changing. … Continue reading