Archive for June, 2007
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
As both Slashdot and Groklaw have reported, Microsoft was selling copies of Ubuntu Linux. The original page is no longer listed, however it can still be found on Google’s cache. I went ahead and grabbed a screenshot from Google cache:
Tags: Google Cache, Microsoft, Ubuntu
Categories: Computing, Linux, Operating Systems
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Tags: Car Crash, Snow, YouTube
Categories: Video
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Tags: Tesla Coil
Categories: Video
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Just SlashDot’ed, another disappointing turn in Dell’s sale of PC’s with Ubuntu pre-installed: Not For Business Use
Ubuntu Forums Post #478975:
the day dell refused to sell a computer
I had a surreal experience with Dell today.
My boss asked me to order a new computer for our small, non-profit business. Wanting to support Dell in their decision to [...]
Tags: Dell, Pre-Installed Linux, Ubuntu
Categories: Computing, Linux
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
DigiKam, one of the best photo management / manipulation applications available for Linux, just released their latest installment: Version 0.9.2. Unfortunately due to a sleep study I didn’t have time to take a look at it last night. However I’m definitely looking forward to some of the new features they have added:
a light-table [...]
Tags: Digikam, Image Management, Kubuntu
Categories: Computing, Linux
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Mike Davidson has a great post that all Wordpress bloggers AND Wordpress widget developers should read about the speed impacts of widget and widget design. I had actually noticed some of these issues when I originally began my switch to widgets, as the flicker widget and picasaweb photo widgets caused significant slowdowns on my [...]
Tags: Performance, Plugin, Widget, Wordpress
Categories: Internet
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Well that was definitely odd. For almost the past week and half, I have been unable to access my own website via my cable Internet service from GEUS, while it’s been quick and responsive for anyone not connected to GEUS. GEUS, because they are such a small provider, outsources the actual Internet connection [...]
Tags: Customer Service, GEUS
Categories: Internet
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Saturday, June 16th, 2007
Tags: Ellen Degeneres, YouTube
Categories: Humor
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Blatantly copied from somewhere on blogger.com
Tags: Confusion, Error Message, GUI Goof Ups, HCI
Categories: Operating Systems
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