September 13, 2007 – 10:27 pm
Walt Mossberg, you are one of my favorite technology reporters, and so I’m particularly disappointed by your article
“Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone“.
My first disappointment is the timing of the article. September 27th Ubuntu will have a beta release of their next version with Ubuntu 7.10 scheduled for release [...]
By Lloyd
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Also posted in Computing, Linux, Ubuntu
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Tagged Consuming, Dell Dimension E520, Linux, Mac OS X, MacOS, microsoft windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, windows vista
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September 6, 2007 – 10:15 pm
I’m writing this email on my purring ThinkPad T42p with its new fan. Yes!
By Lloyd
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Also posted in Consuming
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Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows
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August 31, 2007 – 4:50 pm
My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
By Lloyd
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Also posted in Victoria
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Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows
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The hard drive is a computer’s long term memory. It keeps all of the applications and your work and play on the computer.
It is also the mechanical part of the computer, and the part most likely to fail. Some fail within a couple of years and many do not last more than five.
Hard disk failures [...]
I replaced the hard drive in my laptop because the old one of 60 GB was full. It was mostly full of vmware images for testing Flock and various build environments of Flock.
The new hard drive is 100 GB.
I like things being structured, and there is something really appealing to a clean hard drive. This [...]
Linux + offline Feed Reader = Liferea (insert cool Liferea logo here, does one exist?)
October 16, 2005 – 7:00 am
In these last 36 hours I have been seeing the “gmail Oops” a lot! Most of the time it really does clear up “in a few seconds”, but there has been a few times where it has been much longer.
September 8, 2005 – 8:04 am
Kurt Cagle posted today with the title of “Is Javascript Dead?”. I considered stopping reading right then, because I think that crosses the line of journalistic good taste (oxymoron in a headline, but Kurt is often insightful and is a valued colleague of mine. Javascript is also something that I am interestd in. Having [...]
September 1, 2005 – 2:31 pm
Usability and communicating about usability are what QA (Qommunity and quality Assurance) is all about. At least once a week, I want to post about my non-Flock usability issues from “real-life” situations
On my new laptop running MSWin, I wanted to add a Flickr upload tool. Of the tools listed the one at the [...]
