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Walt Mossberg Wrote the Safe Article About Ubuntu, “I still advise mainstream, nontechnical users to avoid Linux”

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 [...]

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WAMP For WordPress

September 12, 2007 – 8:48 am

Yes, that was the sound of me hitting my head as I tried to setup a WordPress development environment on Windows Vista in the absence of my now restored Ubuntu running ThinkPad.
It is also the acronym for the stack of software that WordPress runs on where the W is for Windows not WordPress. Windows
Apache
MySQL
PHP
Wow, there [...]

By Lloyd | Posted in Web, WordPress | Also tagged , , | Comments (10)

Flushing Blue Toilet Cleaner of Death!

August 23, 2007 – 11:11 am

Microsoft, after finding that the blue screen of death wasn’t having the same amount of market “penetration”, and since the hourglass cursor had never been as successful as Apple Mac OS X’s Spinning Beach Ball of Death , for Windows Vista Microsoft created the spinning ring.
What do you call it? Do you talk nice [...]

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