- Gizmodo busts Psystar. Says hoax. What did I tell you here on Tech5 from the beginning?
- Red Hat drops plan for desktop Linux.
- I complain about Windows and the registry.
- Mark Zukerberg under fire once again.
- New research group recommends Vista.
- Law would ban US in-flight cell phone use.
- Sun shutting down features to screw MySQL users.
- AMD adds to layoffs.
- Laptop desktop crossover coming sooner than expected.
- Novell deluded.
- Google to look at deep web.
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Been running Ubuntu for a few months now on the desktop (laptop, actually). There have been a few problems, mostly with the video card, but overall it is working much better than Vista home premium did. Getting the cell phone to tether was difficult. I still wouldn’t recommend Linux to anyone who doesn’t have “The Knack,” though.
64 bit, really uses both cores well, fast as hell. I had to use IE for filing my state taxes, so it was lucky I kept the original HD. Vista is noticeably slower. It is like using an HP calculator instead of a Texas Instruments: TI is the most used, but RPN makes a lot more sense if you think about it (and if you get that reference, you should be running Linux).
I heard Naomi Campbell will start flying exclusively in Europe. She’ll be able now to talk on the cell phone, besides her known use of the cell phone: long throw.
Will BA allow her to travel with a cell phone?
#1 Linux working better than vista? Vista sucks, but ubuntu networking sucks rhyno, which makes me wonder if you even do networking on the thing.
I put Ubuntu on my last remaining Windows box a couple of weeks ago and it’s interesting. Would not want to use it for a primary system yet.
My wife and I both moved over to Macs in the last 6 months for some of the reasons John mentioned. I do have to say it’s nice now just using apps and never having to think about the operating system. It has actually brought fun and usefulness back to computing.
Awesome King of the Hill quote at the end.
When my friends go to those goat porn sites or wherever they get viruses, I use a bootable Linux CD to format their drives to get rid of those pesky viruses that nothing else seems to get, before they reinstall Windows and their apps.I think it was PC Magazine that pointed me to a nice Linux package.
Dear John,
How do they count the linux users? No sales, no registration.
-Joey B
Here’s my take on the Cell Phone ban. It seemed to come out no long after the 9-11 incident. The passengers of the one plane, discovered that other hijacked planes were used as weapons. So they supposedly rushed the hijackers and this crashed the plane early. Or was that the real cause? Some have speculated that it was shot down. We may never know. And banning cellphone use in planes now, may be more of a national security move. As it gets harder to take out hijacked planes, when the passengers are calling loved ones and telling them what up. Or… it could be to prevent hijackers from coordinating their moves. As the 9-11 terrorists obviously did so with the WTC.
I’ll just bet the NSA has their conversations on tape. It’s also remotely possible that the air carriers want this ban, so they can make more money by charging for their own skyphone use. But they wouldn’t want it known that they lobbied for this ban.