Archive for October, 2009

Linux, Windows 7, and netbooks

With Windows 7 being released this week, it got me thinking about netbooks and Linux and Windows 7. When netbooks first started being made, Vista was coming out and netbooks just couldn’t handle Vista. Microsoft was phasing out XP and telling everyone they were going to have to use Vista instead. If Microsoft had their [...]

Who are you trusting to keep your data safe?

People lose data, all the time. For the past several years though, and I am guilty of this myself, a lot of our data has moved off our personal computers out onto the web. We assume it is safe. It isn’t For me, this would mostly be data I keep at Google. Mostly my email, [...]

Competition is making Comcast a better company

When my one year deal with Comcast triple play, which I got after switching from Comcast’s old digital phone service to their VOIP service, came to an end, I got my bill for what my current services would cost without their promotional discount. I almost fell out of my chair. It was more than my [...]

As if I didn’t alreadly like Hulu enough, they go and do this

Hulu, where I watch most of my TV now, produced Hulu Desktop a while back for Windows and Mac systems, but now they also released a version for Linux. Not content to wallow in their success and only support the masses, they released a Linux version because….. their customers asked them to. Wow, what an [...]

Is search and advertising a conflict of interest?

I am sure I am not the first to ask this question, but I never really thought of it until today. If one website generates higher advertising revenues than another similar website, and you are the one that gets to direct traffic to one or the other, which one are you going to send the [...]