As I’ve posted before, I run Ubuntu Linux on my aging laptop. It’s fast, stable, looks cool, and has a lot of good, free open-source software applications available. Furthermore, for an OS that’s supposedly for geeks (guilty), I spend remarkably little time “under the hood” tinkering with settings or tweaking it to run better. As [...]
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Why Chrome OS doesn’t make much sense
Published by July 12th, 2009 in Google, Linux and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsI was a bit surprised with Google announced they were going to be creating a lightweight Chrome OS for use in netbooks. But is it “doomed”? This article at Slate says “yes,” and I’m inclined to agree, mostly for this reason, as the author writes: Sometimes there’s a logic to this. It made sense for [...]
A few weeks ago, my Windows installation went kaput. It was so bad I couldn’t even boot up in Safe Mode. I was pretty upset, cursing myself for not backing up my important files more often (or, at all). It looked like I might have to re-install Windows. Problem is, when I bought my computer [...]
