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The real value of an operating system
Microsoft seems to have been putting pressure on Asus to favour Windows XP over Linux with moves to promote Windows XP among manufacturers of ultra low-cost PCs. These cost effective ULPCs, often come with Linux pre-installed. In some emerging markets like China and India it seems that Windows XP Home is being priced as low as USD 26 for this ( Read more... ) -
WineHQ
An report that I submitted to WineHQ describing my tests on an old CDROM software application that I successfully tested with my Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Linux distribution has been accepted. It is now part of the Wine HQ application database that lists what . Cool. :-)
I had some fun playing about with Wine to install some simple Windows apps, it was ( Read more... ) -
Life after Vista
Microsoft Vista (long delayed) is on the horizon, so I was interested to read this report in The Age newspaper that notes the quiet surrounding its launch. We can expect an enormous marketing campaign to tout this software and several billions of new revenue to fill the coffers at Microsoft each year. Vista cannot be a dud when just about every ( Read more... ) -
Phew
Last week my 500 Gb Lacie HDD just went belly up with some nasty errors, smack in the middle of some DVD productions that I was working on. I was ready to swing the NTFS brute it out of the window by its USB2.0 lead. It wasnt working hard to break my patience and windows system .. just opening any folder on this HDD with a corrupt file would crash ( Read more... )
