May 22, 2007
New Information on the ‘Penryn’ Processors from Intel
A little bit of information about the new Intel processors hopefully hitting by the end of the year.
Microsoft banning 360’s from Live.
Some ideas as to why some 360’s have been getting banned from Xbox Live recently.
Playstation Home Hands-On (Joystiq)
One of the few things about the PS3 that really intrigues me.
More Info about Dell and Ubuntu
Just a little info about hardware and software for their Ubuntu machines.
Jack can’t poke at Take Two anymore, so he has set his sights on Microsoft.
Better late then never
Cool things you can do with Google
Just a list of different functions that you can do with Google.
Supposedly someone has found a fairly inexpensive cure for cancer, that none of the pharmaceutical companies want to test because it is a non patentable product, and would not make them any money.
Microsoft is not the real threat
Mark Shuttleworth’s response to Microsoft’s recent patent FUD, he discusses some issues that I hadn’t even considered before, if you ever click anything on my website, make it this.
Computer Cart
This will be the first in a series of posts looking at the ad campaign that Apple is currently running.
We are gonna start with on the more recent ones and the one that really set me off the edge. Apple making fun of windows for giving cryptic error messages. In general when a Windows box errors, it is gonna give the name of the file that faulted and an idea of what happened. The mystical BSOD also gives allot of relevant information in regards to what happened when the system went down, there is an error that describes what wrong, and what file is suspected of causing the fault. All very good information on what went wrong.
I do have to give it to Apple and their job of spinning the wording on this to cryptic error message, you can’t really describe a kernel panic as an error message, as it doesn’t give you any information at all, or any place to even begin troubleshooting.
Cryptic? Yes, Informative? Yes
Cryptic? Not really, Informative? Not Really
Cryptic? Yes, Informative? Yes
Cryptic? Yes, Informative? Yes
So it appears as though Cryptic error messages seem to be informative, either from Windows or OS X.
My stumbles for the day
Need a cheap computer? Look no further
An interesting article on the life and times of Albert Einstein, I have always been curious about him as one of my favourite quotes is from him “I have no special talents, I am just passionately curious”
Finally available for pre-order, the Optimus Maximus keyboard, if you got $1564.37 US dollars to spend on a keyboard, and you run Windows XP, Vista or OS X you can’t go wrong.
An interview with Chris DiBona a programs manager for Google, and how they use open source applications along side their proprietary software to drive Google.
This month’s “Month of Bug’s” is focused on search engines.
F-Secure is making a push towards adding a new top level domain of .bank, I for think it looks like a good idea, here is their response to some of the issues people had with the idea.
Some fairly good things to know if you are looking at buying an HDTV
You know that guy who annoys you at work with constant e-mails and IM’s just pass on the URL
In the news today….
See following post.
Kind of a slow news day I don’t think this is even from today, but a friend linked it to me in a conversation today.
Why people really don’t switch to linux
This is a really well written piece, and an angle that I had never considered before as for me installing Linux is a matter of downloading an ISO burning it, installing it and i’m off to the races. With Dell offering Ubuntu pre-installed as early as Tuesday from some reports, maybe it will mean that 2007 is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop.
Again kind of a slow day, but welcome to my blog.
Starcraft 2
It’s finally official, the day Starcraft players have been waiting for years now… Starcraft 2 is official, and well all I can say is I am disappointed. My reasons for being disappointed are entirely selfish, I was hoping for an announcement of something Console based, as I am currently without a computer that can play any games, never mind what it will take to run Starcraft 2. Now that my selfish complaining is over, the early screen-shots and game-play footage looks to be very sound, I would link to some of them but I am sure you have seen them all already. Hopefully I will have a computer capable of playing this by the time it is released, but I doubt I will as my next purchase will be a new laptop, and gaming on a laptop is not something I enjoy, and will not be a concern when I go to look for one.
My new crazy prediction, Diablo 3 will be announced at Blizzcon for PC and Xbox 360, I am basing this on nothing, so don’t take it as news or something that is even gonna happen, but I can always hope.
A open letter to Microsoft
To: Microsoft
Let me start this off as a question, a fairly simple one, and that being, Why? Why are you trying to do this again? Does Linux have you this scared that you need to claim that it violates over 200 of your patents? Why can’t you show the Linux community where these violations are, hell even show the specific companies that are in violation of your patents what they are doing wrong, and let them fix it. I am pretty sure that the companies/persons that are violating these patents would love to get them out of their code, most of these companies/people do not want to be associated with you in any way shape or form and would probably love to get rid of any of these faults that would link them to you.
The saying goes that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, I think you guys have managed to created a situation where you can throw that out the window. What is it you are trying to accomplish here? The only people that are reading news like this are the people that are screaming at you to show us the patents. These are the people that are getting more and more annoyed at your marketing, and attempts to scare people away from Linux. There has been allot of buzz lately on the Internet surrounding Ubuntu and Dell. Has Dell’s decision to start shipping models with Ubuntu pre-installed scared you enough that you are gonna try to stop large corporations from buying them with this FUD? I would say that you sound like a 2 year throwing a hissy fit trying to get attention, but then my 2 year throwing a hissy fit when she wants something is slightly less annoying then what you are trying to do right now, so I guess that would put you somewhere below that.
I think it is time for you as a company to wake up and understand that Linux is here to stay. I am not expecting a version of Office 2007 to ship for Linux any time soon, but maybe try opening up some of your standard for products such as Open Office, build better software and let the people decide what they want, don’t force them to make decisions based off what everyone else is doing. In the long run I think the respect you would gain from the Linux community would far outweigh the profits that you are gonna gain from this FUD campaign that you are trying to run with now. I think you need to take a step back and take a look at what you are doing, and maybe rethink things a little.
Thank you,
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