Archive for June, 2008

Vista is so not great

Today I had to start up my Vista laptop. There was two reasons for this. 1) I had to do some work on my way to job (train) and I also wanted to see how the Windows Dell Mobile Broadband application fixed the train ride. That’s how you find out how great an OS Linux [...]

Let us debate Internet Explorer

Today I read a nice interview with Ryan Johnson of Control Suite fame. During the interview he was asked what the biggest challenges were. The answer was: Internet Explorer. The only debate about the IE debacle that should be going on is whether the product is a result of incompetence or was designed deliberately to [...]

Linux and sound

Sound in Linux is always a problem. I thought I had fixed it now that I bought a KOSS USB adapter to my headset. But no go. I’ll surf around to find out about the problem.

Conspiracytheory

At the moment there aren’t many viruses, spyware or malware for Linux. There are some out there, but not a lot. Then we have the Windows side where there are a quite a lot of viruses. So many and so harmfull that you have to buy Virus Protection software to protect your computer. Linux is [...]

Open Source software

So we have this discussion at work regarding Open Source Software (OSS) and making money / having a business modell. Thouse who are against me (which are quite a few) thinks that OSS is not the right way to go, and those companies who embrace this type of softwarebusiness will end up bankrupt. I – [...]