I periodically have a problem with Konqueror. When I click on a directory, it wants to open it with Kate, a text editor in KDE in Linux. This is the second time this has happened to me so I’m making a note to myself about how to resolve the issue…. Read more »
Amazing how complete the language of Python is. Here is a little snippet that is available all over the place on how to hit a URL and get the text back. Give it a try. import urllib sock = urllib.urlopen(“http://microsoft.com”) htmlSource = sock.read() sock.close() print htmlSource
Here’s an interesting article about M$ launching a new advertising campaign. [Click Here for the Article] Interestingly, this isn’t about their new Longhorn release. There are starting to be rumblings of that release not happening in 2006, but being pushed to 2007 instead. This campaign is just about Windows in… Read more »
I can’t wait to take out every single light bulb in my house! I really hate them. If you place your hand close to one you can feel how inefficient they are by the heat given off. I hate them because I know that there is a better way and… Read more »
Alex Feldstein makes mention of the new Foxpro forum made available from Microsoft. http://www.bloglines.com/blog/AlexFeldstein?id=354 http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=17 I went over to check it out and it displays just fine in my Firefox browser. To register and post onto the forum requires a MS Passport account. I would guess that this would be… Read more »
Bill Howard has an excellent article in the April 26th, 2005 issue of PC Magazine. The title of the article is “Software and the Multi-PC Home”. I looked hard for a link to the article but couldn’t find one. You’ll have to pick up a copy off of the newsstand…. Read more »
Dvorak has some interesting things to say in his latest column: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1781181,00.asp His basic point is that MicroSoft went screaming to the EU to enforce patents much to the dismay of the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) crowd. Dvorak’s point is that instead of working against the FOSS crowd, it… Read more »
I’ve been very pleased with Adelphia as my broadband provider. They have had very reliable service … until lately. It seems that I’ve had to go up and restart my RCA cable modem. To make things worse is that there was a short in the location where the power cord… Read more »
I’d like to chime in about my experience with SimplyMEPIS. I installed it on my laptop yesterday and so far, it’s been great! Far better than my experience with Fedora. SimplyMEPIS is a Debian based disto like Ubuntu is however it is optimized for KDE. (I’ve heard that KUbuntu is… Read more »
A new online-only magazine is now available with free subscriptions. http://tuxmagazine.com/ The magazine appears to be geared towards Linux newbies and is distributed in PDF format. Check it out.
