Posted 10/19/2009 at 10:31:20pm

Would it be worth it to me? Yes, it would, if I had to buy a computer from Dell that had Windows. But Dell does sell some Linux computers. OK, so they have a small selection, but they do have them, and if I were going to buy a computer from Dell, I would buy one of those. Or I would buy from one of the other companies that make Linux computers.

 Still, more power to anyone who wants to do that. It definitely sends a message to the computer makers that the people who purchase their computers want a better selection than just Windows.

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Posted 10/09/2009 at 11:02:17pm

Is anyone else at all concerned about the fact that the United States government instigated a deliberate and unprovoked attack on the moon? Is this a third war that the U.S. will have to be fighting? Did anyone consider economic sanctions before bombing the moon? And are we sending mixed messages by making this attack on a day that our president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Posted 10/05/2009 at 03:33:27pm

I got an email the other day about the FSF (Free Software Foundation) filing something with the Supreme Court in this same case, an I have seen a couple of references on the web here and there. Is their filing separate from Red Hat's, in conjunction with Red Hat's, the same as Red Hat's, or something else? No story I read about the FSF filing mentions Red Hat, and no story I have read about the Red Hat filing mentions the FSF, and not being a lawyer myself, I was kinda curious what the situation was.

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Posted 09/08/2009 at 12:54:19pm

"We haven't seen a product more aptly named since the PushPop, the tasty treat from our childhood years. Now that we're all grown up, we prefer to spend our ducats on computer parts than ice cream..."

Um, this might be a tad off topic, but a "Push Pop" was a lollipop/sucker/candy, not ice cream, unless you are familiar with an ice cream product I haven't heard of.

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Posted 04/27/2009 at 07:40:14am

I started my first website with GeoCities back in January 1997. I was a senior in college at the time. At first, I just used the site to store my bookmarks (I didn't have my own computer at the time, and considering I didn't know which computer in the lab, or even which lab, I would be using, a central place to store bookmarks was a good idea). But it quickly grew as I added information to the site and split the site up into several pages. I still remember my old url, which was rather convoluted.  I eventually paid to upgrade my site, which, if memory serves, jumped me up from 10 MB of storage to a whopping 25 MB of storage, gave me a slightly easier URL, and, most importantly, removed the ads. I left GeoCities in 2004 when I found a web hosting space that gave me many times the storage, my own domain name, the ability to run my own scripts, and no ads for the same cost as I was paying GeoCities. But I still remember GeoCities rather fondly. I understand why they are shutting it down, and I'm not upset with them for doing it, but at the same time, I will be sorry to see GeoCities go. 

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Posted 12/22/2008 at 03:57:15pm

Actually, it was partially being fed up with the constant problems with XP and partially not being impressed with what I was hearing about the then upcoming "Longhorn" that convinced me to switch from Windows to Linux (to be fair, there were several other factors at work as well, but those were two important factors). I first installed Linux in February 2005 and I am now a happy Ubuntu user with no plans on ever going back.

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Posted 04/30/2007 at 05:51:18pm

This is a great article, but you forgot one step that probably should be checked before setting up your own server. Some ISPs don't allow their customers to host their own web server and/or email server. I know my cable provider doesn't allow it at home, and a couple others I have looked at don't allow it, either (at least, not without paying the higher-priced "business" package). Paying $10 (or less) per month for someone else to host my site/email is a lot cheaper than paying an additional $45 a month to host my own site. Not as fun, but cheaper. ====== Laugh at life or life will laugh at you. Running dual boot WinXP and Kubuntu Linux 6.10