No, I’m not giving on Ubuntu…I still think it is the best operating system to hit the computer world since Windows 95.
My client that I installed Ubuntu for last weekend, decided that doing her AOL email in a Firefox windows was too slow (she has 256K DSL). Unfortunately, that was her only complaint and she wants to return to AOL’s proprietary browser/email with Windows XP. Curse AOL, they thwarted a potential success story with my first Ubuntu customer!
Adam and I first mentioned this nasty little virus earlier this spring on our radio show. The email that spreads it poses as an electronic greeting card from your friend or relative. Because the email is so poorly constructed, is never from a known address, and the link it displays in the body of the message is a number (NEVER, EVER Click a link that is constructed of a number, ex: http://91.188.176.15/) we didn’t put much credence in how much damage it could do.
Astute listener/visitor, John, uncovered this well written and researched article, The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen, describing why the U.S. ranks only #17 in broadband Internet penetration world wide. You have heard me bemoan this fact many times over the past few years, and the author of this article, Robert X. Cringley, nails the what, why, and how of why we lag so far behind in Internet access.
The article is a worthy read…especially with elections coming up next year.
Many people are installing Office 2007 and then discovering that their spell check for Outlook Express is set for French. This is fine if you are writing emails in French, but most of us aren’t.
Microsoft is aware of the problem and their solution is the upgrade to Windows Vista.
Our solution is do download and install this free spell check program.
Another less than elegant solution is to:
If you haven’t tuned into our new show live on Thursday nights, here is a short clip of the kind of stuff you are missing.
A Wacom tablet is a tool used by artists to design work on the computer using a natural pen and paper motion.
The tablet is hard and flat and the stylus that you draw with looks like a pen. The Wacom tablet is pressure sensitive providing the ability to draw thicker or heavier lines depending on the amount of pressure that you apply while drawing.
The stylus has a pen tip end and an “eraser” end. As you draw and design you can erase your mistakes by turning the stylus over and erasing with the other end as you would with a pencil.
Wacom has recently released the Bamboo. Although cheaper than previous models, the Bamboo is everything that most artists want in a tablet.
One huge misconception in the computer community is that computers are obsolete as soon as you buy them…or computers need to be replaced every 3-5 years.
Both of these statements are patently false. I stand by my claim and philosophy that a computer is only outdated when it can no longer perform the functions you need it to OR it mechanically fails. Today I saw a customer that demonstrated this theory well. He had two old computers (486 25mhz) computers with 2 GB Hard drives (they were upgraded in 1997). The original machine is circa about 1991 or 1992. The computers still server their purpose for him, but he needed a new application that won’t run on those machines. And this gentleman runs a multi-million dollar business with these 15 year old computers!
A major fiber optic line was cut in Colorado today knocking out Internet to a vast number of customers all around Colorado. I swear that people get more riled by an Internet outage than a TV or water outage (me included).
Please remember my number one rule when troubleshooting an Internet problem: If you haven’t changed anything on your system and the Internet was working fine a few hours ago or yesterday, assume that the problem is on the providers end of things and DO NOT messs with any settings on your computer. Simply wait it out for a few hours or a day.
I have made no secret of the fact that when it comes to digital SLRs I prefer Canon over all other brands. I have also backed up my argument with a long list of reasons.
Everytime any other company gets close to Canon, Canon announces a new camera that out paces the competition both in features and price.
Canon did it again this week. They have announced two new digital SLRs, both will make any serious photographer drool unless they are blinded by their loyalty to another brand of camera.