MP3 Download from Walmart : FAIL
I’m really liking that we can now purchase DRM free music in the form of MP3s. Napster, Amazon, Walmart, and others finally are providing the way to purchase music without handcuffs for personal use. I’m finally glad to see the music industry to get that bug out of their … but something isn’t quite right. [...]
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Does foxnews.com Hate Linux Users?
Sure enough, they won’t serve up video to Linux based computers. I got the low down from The ERACC Web Log. I wonder why they made that decision? To block video based on the operating system? Weird.
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Windows Monitor Demoted; Linux promoted
I’ve run this setup for a long time: Windows XP machine with dual monitors of 1 17″ LCD at 1280×1024 and a 19″ CRT at 1600×1200. My MEPIS Linux laptop was running off of it’s LCD monitor at 1440×800. I’ve been doing more and more web design work and less Visual Foxpro work. My favorite [...]
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No love renaming files in Linux
When renaming files in DOS and Windows, you typed in REN *.txt *.bak. Easy. In Linux, you would figure it would be just as easy. Nah. MV and RENAME don’t do it as easily. Sure you can write a script to do this, but come on!!! I love me some Linux, but it’s true that [...]
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KDiff3 Saves The Day
I’m working for a client doing ASP (Classic) with some COMs against a SQL Server back end. All of a sudden IE7 has a problem with the login page with javascript on one of the servers, but not the others. I’m on a Linux laptop and I have left my Beyond Compare behind on my [...]
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I Read Blogs.
Yes, it’s true. I get much of my information based on blogs and links to other sites from blogs. Considering that most of the mainstream news is the same from site to site to site, I only need to read one news site, and I feel as if I’ve read them all. CNN is the [...]
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Mythbuster endorses Linux
Mythbuster, Jamie Hyneman, is sick of bloated operating systems. Vista, to name one.  It seems like Linux is more to his liking. Click here for Popular Mechanics article.
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Making REALbasic impersonate VFP
When transitioning from one language to another, there’s always an awkward time where you’re thinking like the old language, and struggling with the new. In the past it has been of help to create functions in the new language to help the transition process. Eventually the “transition” function set is abandoned for the pure implementation [...]
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Whither TVease
A while back, I was helping to promote a (very) small company called TVease that sold a killer Linux based box with this blog entry. Unfortunately, like most small companies, it fell apart which is too bad. They made what looked like a killer box. Perhaps this is an opportunity. Perhaps someone else will succeed [...]
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Got a new Puppy
My kids demanded it. They were fighting, causing trouble. I finally gave in. They were fighting over the computer. I had some (very) old laptops hanging around and I decided to slap Puppy Linux on one of them. Just damn. Every time I try Puppy, it is astounding. Stupid name, great product. This doorstop of [...]
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