Category: linux

I never thought the question of whether to use GNOME or KDE on my Linux desktop would be considered a dogfood question, but now with the announcement that my employer …

I want to be clear: I’m talking about regular DVDs, not Blueray or HD. I’m also not talking about making copies for my friends, or other people on the Internet. I’m talking …

Last week at Evening With S60, I did get to see a Nokia N810 very briefly. Major differences between my N800 and this device:

Slide-out keyboard (N800 has no keyboard)
Camera isn’t on a …

The folks at Creative Weblogging–the people behind Gadgets Weblog, VoIP Weblog, and a slew of others, were serving up a “compromised” creative–a ad with malicious intent. In short, what it …

While my MacBook is being sent off to Apple yet again, I have to get work done. After spending a lot of time using my PowerPC-based Mac Mini, I decided I’d …

What’s on the screen of this laptop should give you a hint as to why I might need so many laptops. Or not.

The fact of the matter is, I’m on the hook …

When my son had a Nintendo DS–he lost it someplace he shouldn’t have had it in the first place–he kept bugging me about how he couldn’t get on the WiFi (or as he …

I did it: I installed Freespire. Not on a real machine, but in VMware. Unlike certain OSes by Microsoft unless you pay a small fortune for it, Linux-type OSes don’t …

In the next few weeks, I am supposed to give a presentation to WSTPA about Ubuntu Linux. I’m not going to do death by PowerPoint, but rather demonstrate that, in fact, …

You know, I hadn’t really thought of the two devices as comparable until Om Malik mentioned it. The two posts he did (here and here) generated a fairly active thread related to this. Here’s my take.

I have not …