“The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership” – George W Bush
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The flipside….
Funny bugger – from “Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability”
The SimplyMEPIS version of GNU/Linux I run on my “workhorse” laptop computer includes a full-featured office suite, ftp, chat, and graphics software, and dozens of other useful programs on its installation CD. Windows XP included none of these, and most of the equivalent packages available for Windows are costly. Some, like Microsoft’s Office software (which is similar to OpenOffice.org but doesn’t read as many file formats and won’t directly save your work as PDFs), cost more than the operating system itself.
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Mac and Intel
The Mac is soon to have an Intel processor at its heart. I’ve never been a Mac-head, but it seems like a shame. A little less diversity in computer land. Does this mean that I’ll be able to buy Mac OS and run it on a PC? Will it mean cheaper Macs? Does it matter what the chip in a Mac is?
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Three years of bucketFountain
I missed the birthday myself. When I put the site together I doubted that I’d be able to keep it going for a year, but there you go….
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Family Guy season 4
Family Guy season 4 has started in the US. There are unconfirmed reports that is funny.
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DOS is 25, what can Linux learn from it?
Meanwhile at Slashdot, lessons that Linux can learn from DOS on DOS’s upcoming 25th anniversary.
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Sun’s Looking Glass
Bugger all time at the moment – but while installing a Domino 7 beta on my wee Linux server I stumbled across Sun’s ‘Looking Glass’ project – which is aiming for a funky looking 3D desktop…. The project is in its infancy, but check out the screenshots for an idea of where they’re heading.
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Adobe buy Macromedia
This happened a couple of days ago apparently, read it here at slashdot. There goes another sector of healthy competition.
There’s another insight that’s just gone on slashdot here.
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Revolution OS
If you’re a nerd who loves your software then Revolution OS is the doco for you. In fact, I’ve watched this film twice this week with three non-nerds and they also loved it as much as I did. It plots the rise of Linux and free/open source software. Lots of hyper-intelligent guys with beards, long hair and ethical business practices.