Skype rocks! It really does. And regardless of it not being “open source” and a “community solution” and what not, it works – most of the time. At the same time, Skype sucks big hairy penguins; under Linux that is. The Linux version of Skype …
Although most people (using computers) will never pay for Windows XP as a separate product (either because they don’t pay for it at all, or because it comes pre-installed on their beloved PC), many are aware of the fact that it costs money, and that …
I just stumbled across a really good article; good in the sense that it made me feel interested and glued to its contents, also good in the sense that it took its time in describing why the author thought this or that. It’s related to …
Want to play with the computer that let Joshua communicate with Mathew Broderick in the 1984 movie WarGames? Well, now you can! The Fischer-Freitas Company, formed by a couple of IMSAI employees, have decided to release a vintage IMSAI, able to supply some more “up …
Is the analog world catching up to the digital world? I’m not sure, but it feels like many digital camera manufacturers are trying to zero in on a large number of consumers who have now begun to replace their old compact cameras with the digital …
So I’ve been curious about XFCE for some time now, but I never seem to find the time to install it for a test-drive. So today I decided to go for it, while waiting for some other things to finish. I grabbed the SuSE 9.3 …
So I finally got around to testing our newly acquired “toy”, the Epson Perfection 4990 scanner. It’s an A4-sized flatbed scanner with a ton of accessories intended to make negative and photo scanning easier. The scanner is reasonably priced considering the output produced. I personally …
I just ran into something I’ve never seen in Adobe’s Photoshop CS before: “The image exceeds the size Save for Web was designed for. You may experience out of memory errors and slow performance. Are you sure you want to continue.” The image file is …
So the delivery guy dropped off the SuSE 9.3 shipment an hour ago, and now the first machine has been upgraded from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 9.3. How smooth did the upgrade go? Well, apart from 30 or so packages that needed manual attention, everything …
I’m beginning to wonder if HP has purchased a bad batch of Maxtor harddisks for its D530 series of computers. In three months, I have come across three HP D530 SFF machines with a Maxtor harddisk going belly up. All three machines were at three …