Archive for April, 2008

Why Free Software will eventually win

I started this post a long time ago. It was going to be all about how free software will win. Microsoft has been in the news a lot lately with various announcements about whether or not Windows XP will continue to be sold. When Vista came out, they were all about how Vista was all [...]

HP 2133 is available….???

I was trying to read a little more about the HP 2133 this morning. This is HP’s answer to the ultra mobile mini notebook and I was surprised to find on HP’s website a page where it appeared you could actually order it. I guess they have been available for order since the 8th. The [...]

Software Rights – Do you have any?

I have seen quite a few articles in the past few days about this company Psystar that is selling a Mac clone. They want to sell an inexpensive PC that can run Apple’s Macintosh operating system. They are selling a computer for $800 that would cost over $2000 if you bought the equivalent from Apple. [...]

Grand Central Invites Gone

Last week, I was explaining to someone I met how much I liked Grand Central. They were sold and ready to sign up. I told them, no problem, I will send you an invite. I logged in to my Grand Central account and there were not any there. I didn’t really have time to look [...]

Mio c310x map update additional comments

I have been away for a few weeks. Pretty much off the grid for awhile. during this time I had occasion to use my GPS (a mio 310x) in areas not familiar to me. even with the map update I installed a while back, it still had a few issues, which I have mentioned before. [...]