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2007 / OT: Dell announces support for Ubuntu Linux

« on: May 01, 2007, 10:28:57 AM »

Dell announcement plus interview with Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/default.aspx

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is happy:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546369370.html

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2007 / OT: Michael Dell's home laptop / a "Dell Precision M90"

« on: April 19, 2007, 11:44:31 AM »

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global....l=en&s=corp

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2007 / Remember Global Village Fax software?

« on: April 18, 2007, 11:42:49 AM »

I am cleaning up the office and I have come across some old GlobalFax software - software for the 56K internal modem for, as the label states, the "NEW Power Macintosh G3."

This for my now old Macintosh Blue and White 450, now largely retired.

My recollection is that Global Village modems were the high end of their day primarily due to their "it just works!" user-friendly fax software. And that they went bankrupt once or twice as their competition came down in price and as computer faxing became largely replaced by email attachments and such. Also as people chose high-speed Internet options to replace their slower telephone line modems.

However, I still do have a fax machine in the office that I use from time to time. Fax does not look to be completely obsolete, yet.

Does anyone out there still use computer fax software? If so, in what context?

Thank you,

Epaminondas

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2007 / Latest MacOSX - Special Edition

« on: April 18, 2007, 08:11:32 AM »

Flash required:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2469928627183918026

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2007 / Sony Strikes Again!

« on: April 16, 2007, 08:16:11 AM »

DRM gone wild:

http://sonystrikesagain.wordpress.com/

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2007 / OT: International Women's Day

« on: March 08, 2007, 03:43:12 PM »

I'm off to buy flowers -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day

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2007 / Market Share

« on: March 04, 2007, 02:01:05 AM »

Market share:

Operating System

Browser

Search Engine

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2007 / How does Microsoft develop its software?

« on: February 02, 2007, 09:43:11 AM »

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showA...cleID=197001418

Note: Allchin no longer works for Microsoft.

I wonder if he now has a Mac?

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2007 / A Mac user switches to Vista

« on: January 30, 2007, 09:23:46 PM »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16873608/

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2006 / OT - Worst week ever for television ratings

« on: July 23, 2006, 08:19:44 AM »

Are you doing your part?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060721-7324.html

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2006 / OT: Good car for Wisconsin in the Winter?

« on: July 15, 2006, 10:57:58 PM »

Milady is looking at a job in Wisconsin and she will need wheels.

The area she is looking at apparently has unplowed packed snowy streets during a significant part of the winter.

Her current car only has 260,000 miles on it and is already falling apart. Sheesh! Head gasket leak to boot.

They don't make them like they never did!

The current car will not pass the auto inspection where she is heading, so it is beginning to be time to consider another set of wheels.

Suggestions?

I am thinking all-wheel-drive but I have never actually driven an all-wheel-drive car.

Rear wheel drive in snow = spinning back wheels. Been there.

Front wheel drive in snow = great traction BUT can spin in a circle in a fraction of a second with inadvertent engine braking (I've done that twice driving slowly on packed snow while slowing down at a curve just before a stop sign).

I'd like to guide her to the safest thing she can drive. She is a novice at snow-driving.

Thank you,

Epaminondas

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2006 / Microsoft Makes Virtual PC Free

« on: July 12, 2006, 02:33:25 PM »

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=3275

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2006 / OT: Anybody know what it costs to put an elevator into a house?

« on: July 06, 2006, 08:03:29 PM »

We are thinking about building a "Universal Access" house.

I.e., "handicap accessible."

Why?

Well - we have had three relatives who ended up in wheelchairs - two of whom did not have homes that they could navigate easily.

And another couple who both got fairly weak in their eighties and had trouble getting around their home.

My mother speaks of friends who cannot visit her because her house is inaccessible - not just the entryway, but because her downstairs bathroom could not fit a wheelchair even in its wildest bathroom dreams.

So her once able-bodied / now-handicapped friends can no longer visit.

'Tis a pity.

People we know tend to get into their final house in their forties or fifties, never considering such matters.

Then have trouble (or have friends who have trouble) getting around twenty-forty years later - when they are too set in their ways to do anything about it.

So the thought is - why not make the next house one that we can grow old in as gracefully as possible and enjoy together and with friends and family for as long as possible?

I suspect that the best time to do this is when you do not yet need to.

The major Universal Access option seems to be to have a one-floor house - but that can take up a lot of land.

The other option seems to be to build or buy a two-story house with an elevator or with the ability to put one in. But then there is the matter of cost.

Anybody know anything about costs / manufacturers of home elevators, etc.?

Thank you,

Epaminondas

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