I wasn't going to buy anything on Friday. Honest I wasn't.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm one of those contrarian types who is opposed to shopping on Black Friday. It's as much an unwillingness to go out and drop a bunch of money on stuff I don't need as it is just not want to go out and fight my way through a bunch of crowds to do it. Throw in a ( Read more... )

I've been playing with my new computer to see what it can do. Short answer: a lot. Right now I'm running two virtual machines on it, one with Windows 7 and my favorite ham radio programs, one with XUbuntu 12.10 running some server software. That, and the native Linux apps I'm running on the main machine like chromium and thunderbird. I've even ( Read more... )

A couple of posts ago I mentioned my brand new development box, workstation, computer, toy or whatever you want to call it. I've been tinkering with it since that post and it is still the bee's knees. As of right now it's running a browser (chromium), an email client (Thunderbird), an instance of Windows 7 running in a virtual machine (virtualbox) ( Read more... )