By now, gentle readers, you have probably seen the Javamancy mini post about the one-liner deletion for .svn files. I really like Adam Bien. He seems like a nice guy, and I occasionally drop by his blog, on a lark, to read his stuff, which is often focused on Java and NetBeans, one of our [...]
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A lot of you, gentle readers, have probably heard of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system, a Linux variant. Like many of you, I’m usually eagerly awaiting the semi-annual OS refreshes, particularly the Server Edition updates. For this April, Canonical has tossed us a curve ball, in the form of the new Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix. While [...]
Sometimes it’s fun to see when products are being released. A lot of folks have created countdown timers and distributed them to interested parties to apply on their own sites. Canonical is not immune to this.. here’s what the Ubuntu Countdown banner looks like: Ubuntu 8.10 was released at the end of October, so the [...]
The Deal Yes, it’s true: in a three-day special sale, Dell is offering its newly unveiled Inspiron Mini 9 at a price point starting at USD $99.00. The Rub The catch: you must buy another Dell notebook, albeit also at a discount. Thus, you end paying somewhere between $1,200 and $2,400 for two notebooks. This special [...]
As Dell [DELL] continues its endeavor to radically change (and hopefully, improve) its image with the public, they’ve come through with a new competitor line to the HP 2133 Mini-Note line, which in turn is a formidable response to the ASUStek’s Eec PC. I’ve discussed the recent issues with the mini-/sub-notebook arena that Apple used [...]
Preface Folks, this is one of those historical tales of wonder (or, alternatively, extreme boredom) that I bring out whenever somebody has one of those funny ah-ha stories they bring to my attention. In the Beginning Way back in the primordial days of modern computing, I programmed on an Apple. Not a Mac, but an [...]
The Setup When discussing the PlayStation 3 Ubuntu Linux construct, I mentioned Sony’s previous attempt at a hobbyist kit for the PlayStation 2. This is the story of that kit. The Premise On May 22, 2002, a limited release of an “enthusiast” developer product was released that converted a PlayStation 2 (with the original shell, [...]
Several years ago, when the PlayStation 2 was king, there was a cute “hobbyist kit” released for the PS2 that allowed interested persons the ability to create and run apps that, in some ways, was an onramp for PlayStation development. Fast forward to now, and you’ve still got plenty of interest in creating and maintaining [...]
