October 27, 2009
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Now that Windows 7 and Snow Leopard are both out and Ubuntu 9.10 is all but out, it’s time to revisit which one is the easiest to upgrade With the arrival of Windows 7 a lot of people are at … Continue reading
October 14, 2009
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Usually, Microsoft makes the big security blunders, but with Snow Leopard Apple shows they can also compete with Microsoft when it comes to making really awful security mistakes. How awful? How about making it possible to easily lose all of … Continue reading
September 29, 2009
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Unix is 40-years old. 1969, the summer of love, was the summer of not having enough computer resources for AT&T Bell Lab employees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. After the failure of Multics, a timesharing operating system, the two needed … Continue reading
September 17, 2009
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I have a dad, who thinks he knows computers, and he does know electronics, but software, well, that’s another story. I also have a mother-in-law, who’s both totally non-technical and she’s a native Spanish-speaker with little English and my Spanish … Continue reading
August 30, 2009
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Over the weekend, I decided to see which of the major operating systems would be the easiest to update. The answer may surprise you. First, I took several of my Windows systems and tried to upgrade them to Windows 7 … Continue reading
August 25, 2009
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The conventional wisdom is that Macs are expensive. Microsoft ads make a big deal about how much more computer you can get for the money. Nonsense. Actually, you can get a perfectly good Mac for cheap: the Mac mini, which … Continue reading