Archive for the 'General' Category

20th December Comments

Morning at the Lake

Posted on December 20th, 2009 at 7:36 am

Here is the view in the morning.

And one more for now.

11th December Comments

Email Failure

Posted on December 11th, 2009 at 6:47 am

Heck we made it through a darn blizzard and mediacom is having major problems as there has been no email for over 30 hours and when you call them you get a nice message saying we have a problem with the email and are working on it and hope to have it repaired soon! Hell [...]

5th July Comments

R.I.P. CompuServe

Posted on July 5th, 2009 at 7:27 am

 
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The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service [...]

2nd July Comments

Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:06 am

 
As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (”Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
Yikes of all people Debian [...]

13th September Comments

Lancelot reaches Holy Grail of KDE menu

Posted on September 13th, 2008 at 5:03 am

 
KDE 4 is barely eight months old, and already it has three options for a main menu. Until now, users have either used the default Kickoff, which makes for awkward navigation of the menu tree, or reverted to the familiar but unwieldy classic menu. Now, with the first full release of Lancelot, users have another [...]

7th July Comments

First hurricane of season forms in Atlantic (Reuters)

Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 5:00 am

 
Reuters - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season formed on Monday, hundreds of miles (km) away from the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Hang on to your hats folks, we have one more chance for Bush to show us "correct" hurricane rescue tips
First hurricane of season forms in Atlantic [...]

19th June Comments

Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

Posted on June 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today.
Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than [...]

4th April Comments

XP Home availability extended [News]

Posted on April 4th, 2008 at 5:23 am

 
Microsoft is due to announce some time this week the extended availability of their Windows XP operating system, and it’s all thanks to devices like the Asus Eee PC.
Good news for those of you who refuse to go over the Vista and have not tried Linux as of yet, Baldy

XP Home availability extended [News]

3rd April Comments

It’s time to learn Scheme

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 am

 
Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation’s lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses? Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, and Scheme [...]

25th March Comments

Is Firefox 3 ready for prime time?

Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:53 am

 
Review — Firefox 3 may still be a beta, Beta 4 to be exact, but in a recent Reuters news story, Mozilla Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said of the browser, "In many ways it is much more stable than anything else out there."

Is Firefox 3 ready for prime time?