http://helpmerick.com/another-post-from-ubuntu.htm Easy to understand computer help Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:54:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://helpmerick.com/another-post-from-ubuntu.htm/comment-page-#comment-1899 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=1437#comment-1899 Sometimes I fall asleep listening to my radio on very low volume. I guess I hope I can absorb some information while sleeping. Anyway, I could have sworn I heard a story about MicroSoft setting a deadline beyond which they will no longer sell XP to computer manufacturers. That was right after I heard the story about Dell offering consumers the options of Linux and XP in addition to the Vista option. In their current coercive frame of mind, MicroSoft has got to hate that. Anybody else hear that story? Or perhaps have a link to that story? Vista might be cool, IF you have the extreme power (processor & RAM) necessary to run it up to par, but that costs the consumer noticeable (and, particularly in some fixed-income cases, inconvenient) amounts extra money. For those of us who merely send emails back and forth to family and friends, sometimes with digital photos attached, the Vista mega-power requirements seem inextricably attached to an inexcusably impolitic disregard for a significant share of the computer user market. Such disregard normally carries with it natural consequences which may encourage MicroSoft to re-examine its marketing policies. The whole thing should be fascinating to watch. I think I'll cook some popcorn, put my feed up, sit back and watch the show! Sometimes I fall asleep listening to my radio on very low volume. I guess I hope I can absorb some information while sleeping. Anyway, I could have sworn I heard a story about MicroSoft setting a deadline beyond which they will no longer sell XP to computer manufacturers. That was right after I heard the story about Dell offering consumers the options of Linux and XP in addition to the Vista option. In their current coercive frame of mind, MicroSoft has got to hate that.
Anybody else hear that story? Or perhaps have a link to that story?
Vista might be cool, IF you have the extreme power (processor & RAM) necessary to run it up to par, but that costs the consumer noticeable (and, particularly in some fixed-income cases, inconvenient) amounts extra money. For those of us who merely send emails back and forth to family and friends, sometimes with digital photos attached, the Vista mega-power requirements seem inextricably attached to an inexcusably impolitic disregard for a significant share of the computer user market. Such disregard normally carries with it natural consequences which may encourage MicroSoft to re-examine its marketing policies.
The whole thing should be fascinating to watch. I think I’ll cook some popcorn, put my feed up, sit back and watch the show!

]]> http://helpmerick.com/another-post-from-ubuntu.htm/comment-page-#comment-1900 Anonymous Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://helpmerick.com/wordpr/?p=1437#comment-1900 The article, "Dell to Expand Linux Options", is linked to the Dell website. See http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/13/7985.aspx. The talk string is the kind of thing I love to read, because you can learn so much from so many of the people who are already using Ubuntu and love it. I plan to copy the talk string into an MSWord doc, and highlight the most useful parts for later research. That's how I learn, in addition to regularly attending Rick's and Adam's classes, and regularly reading their blog on HelpMeRick.com (which I have as my homepage). The article, “Dell to Expand Linux Options”, is linked to the Dell website. See
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/13/7985.aspx.
The talk string is the kind of thing I love to read, because you can learn so much from so many of the people who are already using Ubuntu and love it. I plan to copy the talk string into an MSWord doc, and highlight the most useful parts for later research. That’s how I learn, in addition to regularly attending Rick’s and Adam’s classes, and regularly reading their blog on HelpMeRick.com (which I have as my homepage).

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