Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Peter Nowak wrote a CBC article yesterday about Quebec being sued for not accepting software contract bids:
“Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused…”
The article has the tantalizing title of [...]
Filed in Canada, Open Source
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Also tagged Canonical, Novel, Open Source, oracle, Peter Nowak, Public, Public Interest, RedHat, Sun, Ubuntu
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
I’m writing this email on my purring ThinkPad T42p with its new fan. Yes!
Filed in Consuming, PC
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Also tagged burning plastic, fan, laptop, lenovo, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
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!
Filed in PC, Victoria
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Also tagged burning plastic, fan, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows
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