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breathless fanboyism does not equal technology journalism...
...nor is any amount of insipid gushing going to lure me back onto the Microsoft hamster wheel. I anticipate having my initial Win7 experience sometime in the next year or so, once the infrastructure people at my day job manage to convince senior management to lob another few million bucks into the worldwide deployment of yet another ...
Posted to Technology by earthwirehead on October 23, 2009
Windows is a Sticky Trap for Viruses
This weekend, the Windows XP Pro partition on my MacBook Pro, which I maintain for another family member's use, got infected with a trojan that infected exe and dll files and couldn't be removed. I ended up deleting the Boot Camp partition and creating a ew one, reinstalling Windows, and installing 54 Windows updates. Total time spent was about ...
Posted to Technology by plwinkler on October 22, 2009
Rebate for Vista owners? Vista SUCKS
I've been a PC guy all my life, but Vista sorely tempted me to switch to Mac. I wouldn't upgrade to 7 unless MS offered a HUGE rebate for Vista owners. I can't understand why my new vista laptop with specs twice as good as my old XP laptop runs slower. It's ludicrous that a new PC buyer must spend two weeks removing bloatware and disabling ...
Posted to Technology by gambit293 on October 22, 2009
You really don't know what you're talking about
Boo hoo. Outlook doesn't run on Linux? Microsoft Office doesn't run on Linux? Actually, they can if you use wine or crossover office, which allow many apps to run, including iTunes. In reality, after using Linux a while, one can find that openoffice and thunderbird are far superior anyway, and can interface with existing Microsoft technologies and ...
Posted to Technology by foobar on July 14, 2009
Linux CAN easily run Word, Excel, Photoshop, etc
The article makes the statement that ''Linux can't run Outlook, Word, Excel, iTunes, Photoshop, or any number of proprietary apps that businesses all over the world depend on.''. This statement is incorrect. Linux and OSX can run WIndows applications quite easily using Wine, http://www.winehq.org/ . Wine is not an emulator but a translation ...
Posted to Technology by pantone278 on July 11, 2009
Linux is not 'hard to love'....
... just hard for non-technical people to get a chance to know. By that, I do NOT mean that it's hard to use. The learning curve between any of the major Linux distributions and Windows is considerably less steep than the comparable transition to the Mac OS. One product, Xandros, has gone to epic lengths to make their product as reminiscent of ...
Posted to Technology by earthwirehead on July 10, 2009
web head
I for one will welcome the newsystem. I am spending too much time with too many windows.
Posted to Webhead by david wayne osedach on June 18, 2009
"just as good"....no longer good enough
The day when Microsoft could release an adequate or even sub-adequate product (first versions of Windows and Internet Explorer come to mind) and hope to prevail on the strength of sheer marketing chutzpah and predatory business practices is well and thankfully past. That doesn't mean they won't try. Expect to see tight intergration between Bing ...
Posted to Technology by earthwirehead on June 3, 2009
Mac Pro vs. Hp Z - new today
The new Hp Z Workstations are out today and it is possible (with a little effort), to make a direct comparison with the equivalent Mac Pros (noting that Hp's Website is not fun, you can't configure things how you'd like and it's unclear how you get the cool brushed-metal case and modular design the Hp PR flaks went on and on about). In short: Mac ...
Posted to Technology by Videopia on April 6, 2009
The Deal of The Century
First of all, Windows Vista is the abortion of the century. Microsoft was and is completely wrong for sending out a product that does not meet the demands of a 21st Century world. Secondly, Windows products, especially OS products cannot compete with the ease of operation that Apple gives to their products. It is especially galling that ...
Posted to Technology by photoshockrey on April 3, 2009

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