Frosted Windows

Busy day, this is all I got, looking out of the conference room…

The whole tech industry is getting stooopider

Yep. You read correctly. I’m not stt-tt-tt-uttering. Ok, maybe a little. So, what’s up with the fucking dumbass naming conventions lately? I thought the Linux world owned the rights to fucking stupid names like Feisty Fawn, Dapper Dickhead, Whorry Hedgehole, and apps like Joomla. (what the fuck is a Joomla anyway? nevermind. Don’t answer that). [...]

Open Orifice or MS Orifice?

About twice a year I take a poke at both of the office product suites to see how they’re progressing. This past month I installed the latest OpenOffice 2.x flavor on both Ubuntu 7.04 and on Windows Vista, as well as Microsoft Office 2007 (on Vista only of course). The shake-down result? Well, it depends. [...]

Linux apps not quite ready

I know that heading is going to draw fire.  Flaming, diahrea, explosive ridicule most likely.  That’s ok.  It’s a true statement.  However, I obviously need to qualify it to be proper. As I’ve said before: A person’s experience “switching” to Linux will vary as much as their DNA varies.  Every person has their own unique [...]

Linux Rewind: Vista Fast Forward?

My Ubuntu experiment came to a halt, sort of. After running into some problems meeting an urgent demand to get work done for my brother and some friends, I found running the apps inside VMware unsuitable.  If not for performance reasons, well, for performance reasons.  And besides, as I said in an earlier post: Spending [...]