Bill Canaday @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I am very impressed with the advanced state of most Linux application coding. Previously, only a real fan-boy (like myself) would have bothered with Linux at home. Now, well now things are different.
Bill Canaday @ June 26, 2008 # One Comment
When I booted the Ubuntu Live-CD for the first time, the networking was setup (wlan reported my router and my neighbor’s; eth0 was up and grinning) before the desktop was visible. It found all three printers that my machine has access to and loaded the drivers for them. It even bought the coffee. I’m using it now.
Bill Canaday @ June 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I have a 200GB ATA drive that, IIRC, has a lot of good data (family photos, etc.) still sitting on it. I’ve been debating over whether to buy an external enclosure with power supply for it or just buy a cheap-o used computer, insert that HD and copy its useful contents elsewhere.
The problem with [...]
Bill Canaday @ April 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Technorati Tags: eraser.exe,Eraser,Microsoft Security Update,Avast antivirus
Avast, my (free!) anti-virus program of choice, has twice, in as many days, reported that eraser.exe is trying to modify the INI file for Avast. This would seem to be, at the very least, odd. My well-honed personal level of paranoia leads me to regard it as downright sinister.
Bill Canaday @ March 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Technorati Tags: Linux,Wal-mart
They sold out of Linux-based machines and declared the experiment a failure? Something stinks here … I know that my local Ford dealer would be only too happy to sell out of any model. Shoot … he’d be happy to sell out his stock of used Chevy’s!
Middle America Rejects Wal-Mart Linux Experiment [...]
Bill Canaday @ February 22, 2008 # One Comment
Technorati Tags: PBX,software,SOHO,SMB,Dymo,MS-SQL,MySQL,PostgreSQL,E-Commerce,USB,Outlook 2007,Quickbooks Pro 2007,Google Applications
E-Commerce News (with whom I have an on-again / off-again relationship), posted a list of 10 business technologies that ‘just work’ for small to medium businesses.
I’ve summarized their list here, but I want to ask you which technologies you have found useful but were left off the list. [...]
Bill Canaday @ February 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“I hadn’t checked my server logs in a while, so, when I got some surprising results, I thought I would post them” … “Granted that these numbers might be atypical, it seems odd that lightning would strike my little corner of the internet and not others.” … “This would indicate that many Windows users actively reject MSIE as their browser of choice …”
Bill Canaday @ December 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
(1,384 words, 1 link, one ticked-off writer)
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“The potential payoff for students and schools from this work, of course, is that the tens of thousands of existing educational applications written for Windows can potentially run on the XO,” said Mr Utzschneider.”
“Potential payoff for students”. “Tens of thousands”. “Existing”. “Potentially”.
Somebody needs to lay off the Pixie [...]
Bill Canaday @ December 1, 2007 # No Comment Yet
There are now thought to be more than 200,000 malicious programs in existence - the vast majority of which are aimed at subverting Windows PCs.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Tips to help you stay safe online
And what does that tell you? (Hint: this blog is hosted on a Linux server)
Technorati Tags: malware,Windows,Linux
Bill Canaday @ November 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
(1,435 Words) As I write this, I have just spent an evening setting Mandriva Linux up in a VMWare virtual machine. I can’t find my re-install disk for WINXP-Home, so I’ve had to think on this for several weeks. This past week, matters reached a head.