Category Archives: News

U.S. House Rejects Net Neutrality

For those of you that don’t troll Slashdot we have an update concerning my recent post on Net Neutrality. “A recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives has led to a rejection of the principle of Net Neutrality from the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act), in spite of massive lobbying from… Read More »

Net Neutrality

Below is an excerpt from an Open Letter to Google Users by CEO Eric Schmidt. Please take a minute and read it over. Also included are links for contacting your Senator [Link 1], [Link 2]. Let’s hope our less-than-beloved Senator Hatch doesn’t further screw us like he has done so many times in the past… Read More »

Brother HL-2070N: A Review

“So Far So Good” is my review so far of my new Brother HL-2070N LaserJet Printer. I ordered it on Monday and it arrived today (2 day standard shipping, $12.15) from NewEgg.com So far it has been very simple to setup and well supported in Linux. I’m using Ubuntu on my machines and took less… Read More »

The 100 Best Products of the Year

PC World has released its list of the 100 Best Products of the Year. I am happy to point out a few OSS products: #12: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 #27: Ubuntu Linux Distribution #28: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Looks like Ubuntu dropped one place since last year, from the #26 slot. However, in last years review they… Read More »

Death by DMCA

Pretty interesting read here about the DMCA and its past, current & future effects.  Give it a good read & thank Hatch for being such a great supporter.  Perhaps its time for a change? Also found this interesting.  anti-dmca.org

To beat a dead horse…

Computer World has an article entitled “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t LIke About Vista“. Here is a quick breakdown (and then I’ll stop with Vista for a while, promise!) 20. Minimum video system requirements are more like maximum 19. Aero stratification will cause businesses woe. 18. User Account Controls 17. Two words: Secure Desktop… Read More »

Vista : Top 5!

This post is in addition to my previous post on Vista and also in reply to Scott Morris‘ post “SUSE Linux has real security” over on Utah Open Source Planet. I read Scott’s links on the Get ready for the Vista/SUSE smackdown!, Opinion: Why Windows Vista will suck and confirm seven times to delete something.… Read More »

500 Hour Test of Windows Vista

I just went thru the review of Vista over at Toms Hardware and I have to say that I’m not impressed. I think I could have summed up the review in about two lines. “We, uhm, made a cool theme that you can turn off if you like the old look.” “We made a copy… Read More »

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

PC World Magazine has an article about the top 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time.  I thought I’d forward it on. 1. America Online (1989-2006)2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005) to read more check it out here…

Server Rebuild

I hate my webserver. I have spent this entire week restoring my stupid webserver.  I got it 95% up, got hacked by those Turkish @$$holes, started over and now I’m about done.  I was up until 2:00am last nite putting this crap back together.  I am so tired of working on this junk–it’s definitely more… Read More »