TECHdodo

This is really about Mepis 7 beta 1. Beta 2 has already been released, but I downloaded beta 1 awhile ago and I just got around to installing it yesterday. Since everything seems to be working, I am not going to mess around with it. With Mepis 7, Mepis is going back to Debian from [...]

Not long ago, in the weekly email from buy.com there were some portable speakers listed. I have been wanting portable speakers for quite some time. In fact. I bought some Sony speakers for this purpose a while ago, but they didn’t turn out to be what I was looking for. They worked ok, but they [...]

I get so frustrated now when I go to a store looking for something. If there is something I need, generally the last place I should go is to the store. There is no one there that can help me. If you are lucky enough to find someone actually willing to try to help you, [...]

Last week, it was Skype that just couldn’t seem to work. This morning, for me anyway, it appears to be Google. Now unlike Skype, I actually like using Google and all their services. Do I think they are a little over hyped like Skype? Maybe a little, but that hype has allowed them to get [...]

This is turning out to be quite a service outage. So much for having it resolved in 12-24 hours. I feel bad for anyone who really relied on Skype exclusively for any kind of serious communications. Like the DRM post I made a couple of days ago about why DRM is bad. Google decided that [...]