From the monthly archives: April 2007
This is by far the best and most relevant comparison of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux I’ve read(1).
(1) – it’s also the _only_ comparison of Vista and Ubuntu I’ve read
…not paying more attention in English.
The biggest reason I don’t write much here, is not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s that I have no idea how to say it.
It takes me so long to write anything – particularly if it’s an opinion, rather than a simple account -that the very [...]
I think TPG needs to do something about their upstream bandwidth. My modem syncs at between 9 and 10 Mb consistently, and the speed to TPG themselves is very consistent too, but the actual speed to the internet is very hit and miss. On a lot of [...]
The transition is nearly complete – welcome to my new server!
I’ve gone from a dedicated server down to a virtual server, but apart from a little less disk space everything is better – it has faster CPU, faster network, more memory, and it costs less.
Also, I’m now using [...]
A load level of 14 – compiling KDE4 (using a three way parallel build), while starting a VMWare virtual machine from a USB drive, while copying 4 gig of data from a different USB drive to the local drive, and everything is still wonderfully responsive. My laptop or the old Music computer would have given [...]
My music computer decided to go down in a blaze of glory a few nights ago. Emphasis on the blaze. I don’t know if flames were actually involved, but smoke certainly was. The house still stinks of it.
The power supply burnt out, and it seems it took the motherboard with it when it went, [...]
