I’m sure you’ve all heard me boasting lately (probably to the point of wanting to stab me in the eye with your pen) about how happy we’ve been with the traffic that our fledgling humor site, Daily Shite is getting. Daily Shite is a very interesting site to me, not just because I own it, [...]
What ever happened to ION Linux?
February 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Back in June of 2004 I wrote about Element Computers who had developed ION, a Linux desktop OS, which was supposed to run all windows executables at top speeds? Element Computer has overcome the final barrier for Linux adoptionon desktops by mainstream businesses. The company has unveiled the worlds first Linux desktop OS, called ION, [...]
Official – Microsoft has head in bum!
February 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
Well, they must if they think folks are going to fork out for a brand new OS is 2009 (Mary Jo Foley). Hell, a huge dollop of the current XP users will still be XP users in 2009. This week, Windows Core Operating System Division Corporate Vice President Ben Fathi was quoted as saying the next [...]
One thing Linux has that Windows does not!
August 11, 2005 By Leave a Comment
There’s one thing that the Linux desktop has that Windows doesn’t! It’s the ability to scale the background image to a maximum size for the screen while keeping the aspect ratio of the image. Windows just stretches the image to fill the screen and warps it in all directions. What I want in windows is [...]
First step of writing a review – Remove head from bum!
July 30, 2005 By 3 Comments
XYZ Computing had their review of Linspires latest linux OS offering ” Linspire Five-O” slashdotted today. Now, I am a linux fan and have multiple linux boxes lying around here and if anything really annoys me, it’s when somebody who doesn’t seem to know his elbow from his arse-hole does a review of an operating [...]
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