random musings

Jamie's Random Musings: "I got a good illustration yesterday of how easy things can be on Linux, especially compared with kicking a dead whale down the beach (using Windows)."

Jamie's Random Musings: "Sometimes, though, it is possible to get a bit too far ahead of the general development/release cycle.

The HP Pavillion dm1-1020ez that I purchased in January is a case in point."

Jamie's Random Musings: "Well, I've done it again. Bought another sub-notebook. I guess that's what it should be called; too large and powerful to be a netbook, and too small to be a laptop."

Jamie's Random Musings: "No sooner had I written my blurb on Netbook Linux than I came across another alternative, Jolicloud.

I had a quick look at their web page, it makes a good first impression, and the descriptions on it sound promising, so I decided to give it a try"

Jamie's Random Musings: "I have mentioned before that I use a number of Bluetooth peripherals with my portable computers.

This is one of those things where, the more I use it the more I like it."

Jamie's Random Musings: "During the past week I was able to look at a few more candidates in the Personal Financial Management area, and to gain some experience with the one that I have decided to use for now."

Jamie's Random Musings: "Fedora 12 is the only one of this series of releases which has loaded successfully on absolutely every computer I own."

Random Musings: "I don't write much about Skype any more, mostly because I find the entire company, its product and the situations surrounding it totally disgusting.

However, a couple of things have come up which I just have to comment about."

Jamie's Random Musings: " Fill in the blank: Using Windows is like kicking a ________ down the beach.
The correct answer is dead whale."

Jamie's Random Musings: "With new releases of several major Linux distributions coming up in the next few weeks, I would like to take a few minutes to debunk some of the more blatant inaccuracies which are circulated about Linux."