Saturday, July 21, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Review: Linux Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04 precise Pangolin
It took me about a decade to muster-up the courage to finally install a Linux Operating system.
I had been terrified that nothing would work ... not my wireless connection, not my blue-tooth mouse, not the multiple languages/spell-checks I use etc.
Nonetheless, I recently dual-installed Ubuntu 12.04 precise Pangolin by Canonical (Ubuntu is a Linux "distribution" based on the Debian Project's operating system) on a VAIO laptop with Windows pre-installed.
And everything worked ... made more sense, was more accessible and customisable ... and was generally brilliant!
I never booted Windows again since.
I had been terrified that nothing would work ... not my wireless connection, not my blue-tooth mouse, not the multiple languages/spell-checks I use etc.
Nonetheless, I recently dual-installed Ubuntu 12.04 precise Pangolin by Canonical (Ubuntu is a Linux "distribution" based on the Debian Project's operating system) on a VAIO laptop with Windows pre-installed.
And everything worked ... made more sense, was more accessible and customisable ... and was generally brilliant!
I never booted Windows again since.
Sunday, July 08, 2012
On the decision to pull i-Google.
Was Google too good to be true? You could take everything they did, one by one, and they did it better than anybody else. It was the company with everything right about it. It was the company every company either wanted to be like or ought to want to be like. :)
Now, in another one of a recent series of idiotic moves (Have you seen the Android market "Play" lately?), Google is now retiring i-Google, something people (meaning "I") like, spent time customising and find useful.
Why are they pulling the plug? Well ... I don't know. But it does fit with the strategic decision to push Google+ on people ... whether they want to or not.
Problem is: i-Google is brilliant. Google+ is crap. So WTF?
It's too bad. Stupidity is infectious in a company culture. And the fish starts to stink from the head. In any case, I'm switching to NetVibes.
PS) Google announced earlier this year that it would be "streamlining" the privacy agreements for all of its products (including YouTube, Blogger and Gmail). The streamlining makes using Google something EU officials described as "too invasive". Feels like the new motto at Google might soon be altered to become: "The legal department has advised us that, technically, to be an asshole is not exactly the same as being evil"!
PPS) BBC Aricle: "Is it possible to quit Google?"
Now, in another one of a recent series of idiotic moves (Have you seen the Android market "Play" lately?), Google is now retiring i-Google, something people (meaning "I") like, spent time customising and find useful.
Why are they pulling the plug? Well ... I don't know. But it does fit with the strategic decision to push Google+ on people ... whether they want to or not.
Problem is: i-Google is brilliant. Google+ is crap. So WTF?
It's too bad. Stupidity is infectious in a company culture. And the fish starts to stink from the head. In any case, I'm switching to NetVibes.
PS) Google announced earlier this year that it would be "streamlining" the privacy agreements for all of its products (including YouTube, Blogger and Gmail). The streamlining makes using Google something EU officials described as "too invasive". Feels like the new motto at Google might soon be altered to become: "The legal department has advised us that, technically, to be an asshole is not exactly the same as being evil"!
PPS) BBC Aricle: "Is it possible to quit Google?"
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