Intel won’t use Vista—so neither should you

June 26th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This summary pretty much says it all: "When a company as tech savvy as Intel, with full source code access and having written several large chunks of the OS, says get ... Read more..

One year with Linux in a Windows world

June 4th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

Mike Kavis switched to Linux to prove that people can be productive at work without using Microsoft products. One year later, he has proved the point. I have been Microsoft free* ... Read more..

Windos XP Service Pack 3: come and get it!

April 29th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

If you have been steadfastly holding on to Windows XP (and really, who could blame you?), you have probably been looking forward to the promised Service Pack 3, which will ... Read more..

I finally got to try Windows Vista

April 4th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | 1 Comment »

I scored a refurbished Gateway computer from Woot last week, which I intend to use as a server. I was kind of excited, because although I intended to wipe the ... Read more..

Back up your computer only when you are not using it

April 3rd, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

A fair amount of the people I talk to about backup say they forget to do it, or they can't figure out--or never get around to setting up--the built-in backup ... Read more..

Linux beats Windows and Mac OSX in hacking context

March 29th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

From PC World: Vista, MacBook Out--Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest . . . The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of ... Read more..

Back to Windows for a while

March 26th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | 4 Comments »

After just over two weeks using only Ubuntu Linux for all my day-to-day computing needs, I am back to Windows. I don't know what happened for sure, only that ATI ... Read more..

Linux-only experiment, day 2

March 8th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Save Money | No Comments »

AMD/ATI just released an updated driver, v8.3. And they put out a Linux version, which enabled me (finally!) to use my dual-monitor setup in Ubuntu Linux. And so, today I ... Read more..

Ouch! Microsoft fined $1.35 BILLION by the European Union for anticompetitive practices

February 27th, 2008 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The fine of 899 million euros is for Microsoft's failure to comply with a 2004 ruling and the "unreasonable" prices Microsoft charged developers for the information they needed to make ... Read more..

Oh, you thought you owned your copy of Windows Vista?

December 9th, 2007 Sam Glover | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Windows Vista end-user license agreement (EULA) is a 14-page PDF document. (The EULA for Windows XP Pro SP2, by contrast, looks to be only a couple of pages.) This is ... Read more..

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