Call to Arms!
August 13th, 2010
I never thought I’d type this entry. My previous website portfolio has included code to apply hacks and fixes for IE6, 7 and 8. While I’m on the topic, this is good advice for all you budding (or some experienced) web developers out there. Why do I only apply fixes to 6, 7, and 8? [...]
Apple, Windows, Linux…
June 5th, 2010
I’ve spent a lot of time using Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Windows XP and 7, and Ubuntu over the last year. It’s remarkable and amusing how similar and dissimilar they are in surprising ways. I think the main issue people overlook is what the core of the operating system is built on, or derived [...]
News Just In: Piracy Bad!
April 6th, 2010
Every day I take the time to read my iGoogle. It has my weather, news, email and RSS feeds. There is no better place to get my daily dose of informationm and kudos to Google for managing to provide such an excellent facility. I’m aware other sites can provide similar, but they tend to be [...]
Future of Desktop Linux
February 7th, 2010
My PC runs Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 9.10. Windows for Adobe software and gaming, Ubuntu for development. Recently my Nvidia graphics card started playing up, so I removed it. Thankfully, my motherboard has a fairly adequate ATI card built in. I removed the card, restarted Windows and continued as normal. Windows detected the card, [...]