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So You Want to Start an Online Community…

23 August 2009, 3:47 pm

Image via Wikipedia This is going to be a very non-specific post.  A thread I have been posting in over on LinuxQuestions.org has made me think – and you know what happens when I start thinking?  That’s right, I get sleepy.  And then I get writing.  This being the internet and bandwidth and server space [...]

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I Installed Windows 7

22 August 2009, 9:58 pm

So, having a spare hard drive, I installed the system on my Dell Latitude D600. Yep, I accept that this is an older machine, but shouldn’t that mean it would be more supported? Only outside of Redmond it appears. The only way to get Windows to recognise and use the sound and video cards was to get the XP and Windows 2000 drivers and install them using the compatibility function. By the way, the compatibility function worked very very well. However, in the sense of supported hardware, Linux wins hands down.

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Scoble Says “Microsoft Sucks”

18 March 2007, 9:43 pm

In a massive turnaround, Microsoft mouthpiece Robert Scoble says “Microsoft’s internet execution sucks (on the whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks. If that’s ‘in it to win’, then I don’t get it.” As reported by The Times online. Scoble has often being criticised for taking the Redmond dollar and for reporting whatever they wanted [...]

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