Category: Zeros & Ones
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Adventures in Voting
Now that Manic Monday and Super Tuesday have given way to Kryptonite Wednesday, I should retell my adventures voting in the presidential primary.
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SubNotebook Gladiators (Part 2)
In yesterday’s post, I gave readers the history of the OLPC & Asus EeePC products … including why I’m go eager to geek out over cheap notebook computers. Today I put them together for a proper comparison.
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SubNotebook Gladiators (Part 1)
Tonight, on this website … two not-so-giants of the computing world meet to do battle … Well, they won’t do battle … but they will be compared. And pictures will be taken … No, not those kinds of pictures (pervert) … it’s just my comparison of the Asus EeePC and the OLPC.
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There’s a computer … in my pants
Either my computer is too small or my pants pockets are too large, but the Asus EeePC my employer purchased for me fits in my cargo pants pocket. So “there’s a computer in my pants” might sound like a creepy pickup line at a tradeshow, but it might also be true. If you want a…
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Eee for meee
Thanks to the folks at work, I have the use of an Asus Eee PC 4GB Surf. It’s a very cool little, and I do mean little, Intel based laptop. I haven’t done much hacking, just adding & removing packages to customize the default Linux configuration. I will post progress reports as I learn more…
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Funny Microsoft Data
Engadget is running this story where Microsoft reports that the counterfeit rate of Vista is half that of Windows XP. They interpret it as a success for their authorization process preventing piracy. I read it as Microsoft making an OS so bad nobody wants to steal it. The magic of data is how you interpret…