A Windows Alternative that’s Not Unix Based
Jan/090
Did you know that there is a free, Windows based operating environment that aims to be compatible with native Windows software? Neither did I, but that’s what ReactOS intends to be, and by the look of things, the project is moving right along.
Cool.
Speed Up Windows Load Times
Jan/090
Vista 4 Beginners outlines how to streamline your startup applications to get the quickest startup possible out of your machine. After malware problems, too many programs running at startup (which are installed that way by default for “convenience”) is the single biggest cause of system slowdown. As a consequence, I find, a big cause of uninformed users going out and buying a new computer. Vista specific, but with good information for all Windows users. Definitely worth a look.
Unrelenting Frustration: Alarm Clock Edition
Jan/090
Note to the world, never buy me this. It would be in seventeen pieces the first morning it went off. This, this bad thing, is a Mensa alarm clock which wakes you with a varying pattern of lights that you must replicate to turn it off (kinda like those Simon games, but pure evil). If you don’t repeat the sequence correctly, it gets louder. The cost for such a source of torment to you and yours? $41.
Why do people make things?
Easy Peasy – Love the Distro, Hate the New Name
Jan/090
In my continuing quest to become a proper Linux geek, the first piece of real Linux hardware I posessed was an Eee Pc 900 (Target edition), which I upgraded the hell out of. The Linux distro I chose to run on that nifty little machine was called Ubuntu Eee and it was a greast distro indeed. In time, Canonical decreed that Ubuntu Eee could not use the Ubuntu name in their unofficial distribution and Ubuntu Eee planned to change their name with their next release.
Unfortunately, that day has come, and the name they chose is completely terrible: Easy Peasy.
Seriously, why? Of all the names in all the world to choose, why?
So, in short (now that you read my rant anyway), great distro, I’d recommend it to anyone. Just ignore the name…and hope the new release doesn’t have it on some big splash-screen on load, ’cause that would juts be embarrassing.
Caution Sign Programming
Jan/090
Straight from the don’t try this at home unless you want to take a good shot at being arrested files: Programming those roadside caution signs (you know, the light up kind) to display whatever you want. Provided the internals of the thing have been left unlocked for your convenience.
Really, don’t try this at home (on roadside, etc.), but its really freaking cool.
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