The supposed new pricing scheme Microsoft is considering is ridiculous. A Slashdot article today reports that they are thinking about putting a 3 application limit on the Home Basic version of Windows 7. This is based on research findings that show that basic users usually only run two applications at a time.
This is the biggest [...]
A while back I wrote a series of blog posts about trying new Linux distributions. I finally settled on one that I actually picked up at OSCON 2008. The OpenSUSE guys were handing out CDs and since I had just formatted my laptop for the trip, I decided to fire it up in a VMWare [...]
I recently started working on a PHP project using Eclipse as the IDE. I typically use OpenSUSE on my linux machiens but I was given a development machine with Gentoo on it and started setting up the window manager to work on the project. Emerging eclipse worked fine and installed eclipse. However, once I started [...]
I have been meaning to blog about this for a while now (~2 weeks) but I haven’t had the time to get around to it. Someone recently told me about a Dreamhost deal for a hosted Linux server for 2 years for $47. Now that’s a heck of a deal I thought, but I wasn’t [...]
As I mentioned in the previous post I’m current installing Debian 40r3. So far I am pretty excited just by the installer alone. It has already detected all my hardware and configured my wireless card and that was all before it got to partitioning. In the partitioning, it actually had an option for Guided full [...]
