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Ubuntu 8.04 And The ATEN CS1734B

Posted in Misc on Apr 24th, 2008

If you install Ubuntu 8.04 on a system with an ATEN CS1734B switch it may be worth connecting the monitor directly during the installation.

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Vista SP1: Too Little, Too Late

Posted in Misc on Apr 19th, 2008

Vista Service Pack 1 finally showed up in my Windows Update.
I have had some fun with Vista lately. My C: drive was approaching capacity and Vista told me that I couldn’t extend it. I succeeded in the end but it was unreasonably difficult. Vista makes simple things needlessly complicated, like keeping your software and data [...]

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The First £100 Laptop

Posted in Misc on Feb 19th, 2008

Elonex has just announced the UK’s first £100 laptop. It will be available next week. Naturally, at this price, it runs Linux.
Back when IBM announced the PS/2 microchannel architecture to try to win back control of the PC market I struck it off the approved vendors list at a large company where I worked and [...]

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Cheaper Microsoft Office Inevitable

Posted in Misc on Dec 6th, 2007

I thought Apple was hitting balls out of the park these days but Kevin Allison writing in the Financial Times last month quoted Davey Winder slagging off the latest Apple operating system (Panther) saying, in effect, that it’s got Windows-type reliability problems. I don’t read Winder’s blog very often, but I know who he [...]

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For Microsoft the Ow! Starts Now

Posted in Misc on Oct 24th, 2007

There is beginning to be a bit of a buzz about Ubuntu. The better it gets, the buzz as well as the product, the less likely it is that Microsoft will persuade Windows XP users to move to Vista. Vista is expensive, complex and unreliable and there are too many versions of it. And Office [...]

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