Month: December 2007

  • Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year

    I would like to say sorry because I have not been able to post over these holidays as I am trying to write a review for the Nintendo DS Lite.

  • Review: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year Part 2

    Yah. The second and final part of this series on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year.  System configuration. Everyone has to configure the OS at some time. Ubuntu wants you to scroll through a bunch of icons on the System dropdown menu, which is so old-school…

  • Review: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year Part 1

    A 2 Part cage match between the Gutsy Gibbon and the Macintosh Leopard: Who will win? This is an in depth article about how the two Operating systems compare. I personally have not used Leopard but I have tried it out on a demo computer at the store. It is very cool. I have used…

  • Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust

    yah an 8 core CPU… That would be great to have inside a server. I am saving up for a new server right now. I would love to have a nice fast server unlike the one I have now. This article talks about how faster chips are leaving programmers in their dust because of the…

  • Google’s “Knol” Reinvents Wikipedia

    Wow a new kind of Wikipedia…. only from Google. Google’s “Knol” Reinvents Wikipedia Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday December 14, @08:31AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept. teslatug writes “Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept…

  • Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative

    Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative Posted by Zonk on Friday December 14, @09:42AM from the who-doesn’t-love-a-good-open-government dept. christian.einfeldt writes “The Dutch government has set a target date of April 2008 for its agencies to start preferentially using open standards-based software. Organizations in the government will still be able to use proprietary software and…

  • Ryan Orser’s Windows Vista Review

    I have been using Windows Vista for over a week now. Why I chose to review Windows Vista I am unsure, but for reasons unknown I installed it. In the future I will review Windows Vista SP1 even though it’s likely the changes will be small. The specifications of my laptop are as follows: AMD…

  • For todays Post

    I am just going to say that for todays post is that I have the Vista Review coming out tomorrow.

  • The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive

    Wow! The First Commercial HD was 4.4 MB and it weighed almost a ton? The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 10, @03:15PM from the looking-back-for-perspective dept. Captain DaFt writes “Snopes.com has an article that gives an interesting look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM…

  • Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer

    Article from Slashdot: Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 10, @11:09AM from the god-bless-america-land-of-the-super-corporation dept. Over the weekend we posted a story about a new copyright bill that creates a new govt. agency in charge of copyright enforcement. Kevin Way writes “In particular, the bill grants this new agency…