Wrap your head around this: In a couple of hours, the 90′s will be 20 years ago! Yup, its scary I know. But hey think of it this way: in 1990 we didn’t even have Linux, and in 2000 Linux looks like a crippled OS compared to today’s Linux. So its all good. Here I »
Well at least according to Dell’s website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft’s latest masterpiece: Ubuntu! Update: Here is the original Dell website. The error is still up. Not fixed. Doesn’t matter, print screen already did the damage Update 2: After 5 days from the original post, Dell finally fixed »
I know that this is a Linux blog, and thats what readers have come to expect. But sometimes one encounters stuff that is just too good to pass. So that other day my dad bought a new HP Pavilion desktop, and since I am the geek in residence I ended up setting it up for »
In an earlier article we established that piracy of software is basically a given in today’s world where information is so easily shared and duplicated. We also established that no matter what DRM measures are implemented by commercial software developers, no matter how advanced or how draconian they are, someone’s always going to find a »
It shouldn’t be too much of a stretch to assume that a good portion of those whom read this blog are Linux users, and so are involved to varying degrees in what is commonly called the ‘Linux Community’. Anyone who’s been into the whole Linux thang for a while has probably noticed this; I haven’t »
Google is a wonderful tool. No I am not talking about how it helps us locating the information we seek, unearthing valuable gems. But rather how it reveals trends. It’s only logical, the more people are searching a keyword the more revealing of current trends. a pretty simple and straightforward hypothesis. So it’s only normal »
Could hardware vendors be deliberately blocking and sabotaging Linux? What would their incentive or motivation be? One would think that would be just stupid, since no matter how small the Linux market is, at the end of the day there will be money exchanging hands. Why would a company say no to paying customers? In »
Exactly 2 hours and 47 minutes ago, my mom wanted to print something quickly from our HP Photosmart c3100 printer. So she hooked up her Vaio, but it started complaining about drivers. She started to panic, and asked me for help. I calmed her down, and navigated to the HP site to find the printer’s »
Ya well most tech savvy people already know this, after all it’s common knowledge. But it’s nice to see the difference visually, and would probably explain the difference to the less technically endowed amongst us, in more ways than one!
Today we live in a “web 2.0” world, which pushed the limits of creativity, collaboration, and sharing of ideas. The main players of “web 2.0″, the wikis, the social bookmarking sites, photo management sites, blogging …etc are all tools that we have grown accustomed to. I for one could not imagine myself living without Digg, »
