Get Bused, Get Omnibused

It’s that time again — time for some bigtime link aggregation. So strap in and enjoy the ride, y’all. PA liquor laws are stupid, unpopular. Sky blue, Pope Catholic, Queen English. I pride myself on being a bit of a geek, but getting the real Boba Fett to show up and object to your Star [...]

Posted by Doug on June 5th, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Humor, Links, Microsoft, Observations, Video Games, Videos

Innovative Business Model: Buy My Product Or I’ll Sue You!

Now this is a doozy. A company called “MRT” has decided to sue Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks because MRT claims that Vista, Adobe Flash Player, Real Player, iTunes and the iPod have been produced “without regard for the DMCA or the rights of American Intellectual Property owners.” The DMCA, signed into law in [...]

Posted by Doug on May 11th, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Apple, Computers, Media, Microsoft, Observations

This’ll Help Convince The Feds To Adopt Linux

Via Slashdot, I saw a story about Richard Stallman convincing Cuba to adopt Linux. Linux companies and Linux advocates have been struggling against a reputation as mere software Communism – good thing Open Source Software’s strongest “advocate” (RMS) has gone and proved the case to be, well, true. Gah.

Posted by Doug on February 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment Posted in Linux, Microsoft, Open Source Software, Politics

Burnination, The Follow-Up

With apologies to Trogdor: Shortly after I posted my review of Toast, I stumbled across a comparison review of a few of the top Mac burning software packages. Toast makes an appearance, as do Burn and two others, as well as a 5th one that was suggested in the reviews’ comments (LiquidCD) which got me [...]

Posted by Doug on February 14th, 2007 | 2 Comments Posted in Computers, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Reviews

Windows Admins, Feel Hal’s Pain

‘Cause I know I certainly have: Why, Steve? Why? Heh. (And yes, I know it’s a Symantec ad, but it’s still true and it’s still funny…)

Posted by Doug on January 3rd, 2007 | Comments Off Posted in Computers, Humor, Microsoft

Now THERE’S A Good Security “Fix”

Microsoft announced a rather serious flaw with their Word product today which apparently affects every version of Word from 2000 through the most recent releases, Macintosh versions and Word Viewer included. There is no known patch, nor is there a work-around and none of the big anti-virus companies have a fix or even a virus [...]

Posted by Doug on December 6th, 2006 | Comments Off Posted in Computers, Microsoft, Observations
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