Blog Archive May 2007

Monthly Archives: May 2007

91st running of the Indy 500

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: May 27, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Yes, we know the Americans love this race…Oh wait, they used to love this race. It used to be #1 in the US as the most watched sport at any one time, now it is barely hanging on to the top 10. Nascar’s Dayton 500 took that over, and slowly the F1 racing is making [...]

Posted in Linux | 8 Comments

Dude! You're not getting ripped off

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: May 24, 2007 at 12:00 pm

OK, so everyone knows that Dell announced (well Direct2Dell) that they will be releasing the new Ubuntu machines today at 4pm CST, Chicago Standard Time Well, I have seen post after post about how people are getting ripped off by going with Ubuntu and not Vista. Well lets just break this down… Dell E1505n I [...]

Posted in Personal | Tagged | 12 Comments

Dear Proprietary Users,

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: May 23, 2007 at 11:42 am

Aaron Seigo, of KDE fame, was recently filmed while down in Brazil for FISL 8.0. It is a quick 5 minutes, but in those 5 minutes I heard him speak about the differences in proprietary and open source software that I haven’t heard many people hit on. I will say this, he is correct and [...]

Posted in Personal | Tagged | 3 Comments

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