Archive for March, 2010

Dual Booting with Windows as default

I have set up several computers recently to dual boot Windows and Linux for other people. I have only done it for myself in the past and didn’t stray too far from the default set ups. One thing I have found in setting up other people’s systems is that they like the default operating system [...]

Pre order switcharoo

I often tell about my buying experiences here. Usually bad experiences, but sometimes good. I have one of each to tell today, for the same item. Two new Pokemon games came out yesterday for the Nintendo DS. Nintendo had an offer where if you pre-ordered the games, you could get a free figurine along with [...]

RealDVD wasn’t for real

About a year and a half ago I wrote a couple of posts about RealDVD, a program made by RealOne that allowed people to make copies of DVDs for personal use. It seemed to me there were other programs that already did what it did, better than it did, but they were not exactly considered [...]