February 13, 2009
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Emma Alvarado is mad as heck and she’s not going to take it anymore. Alvarado purchased a PC from Lenovo on June 20, 2008, it came with Windows Vista Business and she to pay an additional $59.25 in order to … Continue reading
February 12, 2009
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You won’t find a word about it on Dell’s sales site for the Dell Latitude E4200 laptop or the Latitude E4300, but these Windows Vista, or optionally XP, notebooks come not only with Windows but with an embedded Linux desktop … Continue reading
February 11, 2009
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f you’re like me, you don’t like proprietary video and audio codecs. Be that as it may, some sites, like NBC’s Olympics site, use Microsoft’s proprietary Silverlight streaming technology. Until recently, if you were using Linux that meant you couldn’t … Continue reading
February 10, 2009
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In case you haven’t guessed by now, I like desktop Linux. I admit though that Linux is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to deal with proprietary media formats. These formats are designed to lock … Continue reading
February 9, 2009
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Lately, I’ve seen several articles by Windows users grumbling about how hard it is to install software on Linux. It is? You could have fooled me. Still, people are having trouble, so here’s my 101 class on installing programs on … Continue reading
February 5, 2009
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In a recent story, my fellow scribe Preston Gralla wrote, “If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows user, it’s installing new software.” Now, he’s seen the error of his ways about that, but … Continue reading