tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297903272008-10-03T11:12:56.157-07:00Primarily dedicated to to promotion of Linux, but any technology subject is fair game.TripleIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996753278138524575noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29790327.post-85580679248189181732008-08-19T10:32:00.000-07:002008-08-27T09:15:51.166-07:00

The continued heating up of the UMPC market has shown a couple of things. The first being, that despite all the "opinions" to the contrary, an OEMed Linux install is a breeze to use and comes with a lot of productive software. The second, and probably most important thing it has shown is that MS can and will give in to price pressure and is not nearly as powerful as everyone thought. Instead

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As Firefox, Apple and Linux continue to make gains in both market share, mind share and positive press, a constant method of trying to invalidate any good news is to point to market share stats from Net Applications. You can find many stories that rely on Net Applications as being the gold standard such as Linux still chasing that elusive 1% marketshare Still a long way to go for Firefox 20%

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With all the new product offerings for UMPC, from the EEE to the MSI Wind to Acer's new Mini-Note and on down the line, we are finally seeing mainstream Linux adoption. Despite XP Home being made available, I see the usually cheaper more capable Linux version being an attractive business option because there are no roadblocks to installing any software to connect to the enterprise. From shared

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Introduction This blog entry deals with my review of the Meizu MP6 from a "new information" point of view. What I outline below is information that adds to other's reviews of the Meizu MP6. I have put a list of references at the bottom to make learning more about the MP6 easier. I received my new 8 Gbyte Meizu MP6 about three weeks ago. I have been thoroughly impressed with all the

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This is an open letter to the ISO standard committee. I believe you are at a crossroads in your organization. No other standard ever proposed has caused such an uproar as OOXML. The number of irregularities in the entire process is growing at a rapid rate, and it threatens to simply undermine your credibility. As you are well aware, there is a massive campaign underway by Microsoft to get the

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I started researching iTunes to see about the DRM free content, however, Linux is still excluded. You can't even browse without downloading and installing iTunes and of course, that is only OS-X or Windows. When I Googled for "Linux DRM free downloads" I saw a news entry on Walmart. I checked it out and all I can say is, this is the service I have been looking for. Create your own Mixed CD at

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I am in the market for a new MP3 player. Unlike a year and a half ago, Plays For Sure only (meaning MTP or Microsoft's proprietary transfer protocol) was about all you could find. Because PFS (Also known and Pray's For Sure, MaybePlays, etc) was going to eat iTunes for lunch, everyone jumped on the bandwagon and touted this as the best thing to come along since the invention of the mouse. My

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I have been reading all about how Congress has declared that P2P networks are a threat to national security. I can appreciate that many members of Congress are not technically savvy, however, whatever, look, I have to call a spade a spade, whatever BONEHEADED organization or individuals is telling you this crock should be ashamed. (Does anyone smell the RIAA/MPAA?). The problem is not P2P

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There seems to be a new trend that must have Microsoft worried. It seems that the vast resources at it's disposal is not as effective as it would have hoped. A number of new developments over the past half year are showing that maybe Microsoft isn't the 800 lb gorilla it once was. If you take a look at the recent setback in Microsoft's mission to get OOXML ratified, you see that even with a

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As I was knee deep on page 11 of a google search on CODESET_INCOMPATIBLE CORBA error running a Java application in Eclipse, I finally found the solution, and all of a sudden, it occurred to me that inherent with the finding my answer in a haystack was a potential solution to the Piracy problem the MPAA/RIAA claims steals billions from their sales. If you look at why people (apparently)

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A recent story here prompted me to write this blog entry. It, simply put, is time for the Government to mandate to ISPs in this country that it is their job and responsibility to protect their users. There are many millions of compromised computers out there today. Of these millions, most user's are unaware that their machines have been compromised. Yes, some of these computers are owned by

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Dell has publicly announced that it will offer more laptops and desktops with Linux pre-installed. I can imagine the internal response at Redmond. You can be sure that MS is looking at all options to halt this in it's tracks. The large OEM vendors are the last true stronghold keeping Linux from being a viable computing option for the average user. I expect intense pressure from MS coming

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As you know, Dell has intrigued many with it's ideastorm website. I was reading a few blogs and news items today that basically concluded that Dell can't do Linux on the desktop for two main (and fundamentally flawed reasons) reasons. 1) It's too much work for Dell to certify, install, preconfigure, etc...even a single distribution on their products and 2) It will cost a trillion $s to offer

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Let's assume for a minute that you have completed your Vista testing. Everything within your company, all applications confirmed as work, everything points to you and your company being capable of running Vista. Now, this blog is more aimed at the larger business entities, especially those with multiple campuses, and typically many hard firewalled labs. Let's take a telecom company, for

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Dear Dell, I have been actively reading your Dell Ideastorm forums and was excited to see your announcements about moving forward offering Linux pre-installed. This action on your part will position your company to reap the benefits from the open source enthusiast community. With that said, like most who post in your forums I have advice, feedback, etc, that I have outlined below. Laptop's

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If you are reading this, then you have been using and working with PCLinuxOS in VMware. Part 1 of 4: linux For the Supernewbie and Part 2 of 4: Playing with Linux I finally had the time to work on part 3, creating the live CD and running PCLinuxOS natively. After reviewing the documentation available at the PCLinuxOS site, it became even easier because the quality of that documentation is

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Despite many assertions that I must be a pirate and am anti-DRM because I want it all free, I am not. I have never downloaded an illegal copyrighted movie, or illegal copyrighted music. Despite the RIAA/MPAA, stealing is stealing, and if you do download copyrighted content for your own use without paying for it, you are stealing. Now the grey area, or fair use, if you purchased, say a movie

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It seems that some people completely dismiss my previous Blu-Ray DVD posts as simply conspiracy theory never going to happen ramblings. Could they be right, it is getting more doubtful, but I will leave that to the reader to decide. The key to all of this is to remember that for all the DRM they are attempting, only the most gullible in the RIAA/MPAA and the big content companies actually

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Congratulations again. If you are reading this, then you had success installing Linux on your Windows PC. So now that you have it installed, what do you do? Before we get to actually playing though, here are some hints. 1) Across the top of your VMPlayer, you see CD Drives, Ethernet with arrows, etc. Using these you can control what parts of your computer Linux is allowed to see. You may

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So you have heard of Linux, you read somewhere that it is more secure, and runs a lot of the web services using something called LAMP (or something like that). You are curious, but you have a working system now (you know it's quirks, and how to workaround what doesn't work or to get it working) and are nowhere near ready to take the plunge. If the above describes you, then you are in the right

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Over the past several months, Ed Bott has been tracking WGA and all it's implications. Despite proving that it is intrusive, error prone and in general punishes Windows users who are incorrectly flagged as "Pirates", some continue to rally support for WGA in the talkbacks. In response to my question What percentage of legitimate users eventually give up and give in and just buy a license to

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This is a followup to my original story. There is no software that can fix my 411 HD receiver problem. There is a fundamental design flaw. Now, that is not to say that there are people who are not experiencing BOTH software and hardware problems. Having cancelled my HD service, and waiting on the box to return the receiver to Dish, it was time to take a look. The HDMI SURFACE MOUNTED

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UPDATE: Now that I removed the receiver and got a look at it, whether there is a software problem or not, my failure is hardware. You can read for yourself here. 411 HDMI connector design flaw I selected DISH HD after purchasing a 37" LCD TV. I was extremely pleased with the quality of the picture over HDMI. That lasted for 6 weeks. All of a sudden, HDMI stopped working. For a week or so,

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I came across an article about buymusic.com. I decided to check out what they were talking about in the terms of service. I found it humorous that the terms of service that you have to agree to is in a window 3 lines high with a scrollbar. After reading it this way for a few minutes, I avoided a headache and cut/paste into an editor. There, all 4,343 words plain to see. To make matters worse

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I have done a lot of reading regarding AllOfMP3.com. In case you don't know, it is an online music store in Russia that is legally (in Russia) selling online music by the Mbyte which works out to roughly 10c per song. They claim to be operating legally in their own country, but of course, the RIAA is rather upset about them operating. They pay royalties for each CD and part of each sale to the

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