Category: linux

The folks at Creative Weblogging–the people behind Gadgets Weblog, VoIP Weblog, and a slew of others, were serving up a “compromised” creative–a ad with malicious intent. In short, what it …

While my MacBook is being sent off to Apple yet again, I have to get work done. After spending a lot of time using my PowerPC-based Mac Mini, I decided I’d …

What’s on the screen of this laptop should give you a hint as to why I might need so many laptops. Or not.

The fact of the matter is, I’m on the hook …

When my son had a Nintendo DS–he lost it someplace he shouldn’t have had it in the first place–he kept bugging me about how he couldn’t get on the WiFi (or as he …

I did it: I installed Freespire. Not on a real machine, but in VMware. Unlike certain OSes by Microsoft unless you pay a small fortune for it, Linux-type OSes don’t …

In the next few weeks, I am supposed to give a presentation to WSTPA about Ubuntu Linux. I’m not going to do death by PowerPoint, but rather demonstrate that, in fact, …

You know, I hadn’t really thought of the two devices as comparable until Om Malik mentioned it. The two posts he did (here and here) generated a fairly active thread related to this. Here’s my take.

I have not …

This ZDNet Blogs article discusses some of the reasons why Linux hasn’t garnered a larger market share on the desktop, which of course Paul Thurrott, one of the most well-known Windows fanboys, had to chime in on. When …

As you can tell by the crappy video I posted yesterday, yes I know I need a tripod, I got a Nokia N800 yesterday. I’ve been trying my best not to let it monopolize my day because it’s a …

There seems to be a misconception out there that just because you run Network Time Protocol (NTP) on your network that you don’t need to patch your computers for the Daylight Saving Time nonsense that’s befallen North America. Fact is: …