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 @ February 22, 2008 # One Comment
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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 @ 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.
Bill Canaday @ October 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
(647 Words) “Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. (emphasis mine) On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the [...]