This is a follow up to my post from last week. The first of two. A comment to that post posed a few questions that I felt called for answers too long to fit into a comment. I thought I'd address the technical side of things first ( Read more... )

I have a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX based machine that I bought (very) used in 2000. I got it to experiment with Linux without messing up the system I used for everyday stuff. After a few minor upgrades it worked great and I tried a dozens of different distros on it. It's been a very good, solid backup machine. Although every capacitor on the motherboard ( Read more... )

It seems so strange. I was shifting through some old files and it hit me; it's 2007. Sure, that doesn't seem like a revelation and it's not. We all know what year it is but it's the passage of time and how much the world has changed that struck me. Ten years ago was about the time companies everywhere started to get the idea that they had to have ( Read more... )