There has been a lot of debate concerning OLPC’s (or Negroponte’s) decision to load XO laptops with XP. I say it is a downright idiotic decision, and not because of RMS’ article about freedom (don’t get me wrong here, Stallman is my hero, but he develops his article in a completely wrong way in the [...]
I am the maintainer of a few public computers in a school library. I didn’t really check, but if I remember correctly, the computers are pretty old 900 MHz Pentiums with 90-128 mb RAM. Now these computers had XP on them before, but I removed this horrible operating system in order to install Linux. Of [...]
It’s been said that FireFox Mobile is due in late 2008. A great surprise, because the Minimo browser really got whooped by Opera Mini and its innovations, even on smaller mobile devices, such as older mobile phones. Besides, I hate Minimo. The UI design mock-up already exists, for touch-screens. Now this looks like old news, [...]
You don’t have a lot of time. On the operating system market, there are lots of great products, like Linux. With Linux, you can easily customize the look and feel of your system, tweak every aspect of the desktop to your specific needs. What many people forget to tell you is that this can take [...]
I’m writing this post on my Macbook in a hotel, using a 30 min WLAN coupon. Luckily, I stored all of my crucial sites I must have access to immediately as I log on, at Nevibes. It’s very simple stuff, everyone can do it. Of course, those using Firefox are always ahead, although Opera enables [...]
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