Linux, preinstalled on PCs - It about time

And the timing is perfect. Mr Dell, as it turns out (a little Douglassy, eh? Don’t get it, read “Salmon of Doubt”, the last book by Douglas Adams, pg 27), runs Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn on his home PC. Well, one of his PCs, he has four mamoths with 4GB RAM and a Quadro FX 3500 et al, costing well over $4000. Aparently, he also runs windows as well. Hmmm… living the high life.

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News?! Why buy

I ought to resist the temptation of writing posts full of only links to other blogs .. but this one is good http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/03/25/selling-news-is-dead/ He talks about how “selling news is dead”. I thinks he hits the nail on the head with this one. When was the last time, that you read/saw, a news items that was worth buying the newspaper for? I can hardly remember the time, I needed to pick a newspaper, let alone buy one.

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