Nokia Loses $1.7Bn Last Quarter
Nokia's financial results for the first quarter of 2012 are out. They lost a stunning $1.
Jamie's Mostly Linux Stuff
Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7.
J.A. Watson
I started working with what we called "analog computers" in aircraft maintenance with the United States Air Force in 1970. After finishing military service and returning to university, I was introduced to microprocessors and machine language programming on Intel 4040 processors. After that I also worked on, operated and programmed Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8, PDP-11 (/45 and /70) and VAX minicomputers. I was involved with the first wave of Unix-based microcomputers, in the early '80s. I have been working in software development, operation, installation and support since then.
Latest Posts
Dream Linux 5 - New and Different
How about something different for a Friday? Dream Linux is a distribution which I was watching some time ago, but it seemed to stall at release 4 Beta 6.
Hooray! Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 4!
Easter Weekend brought good news for Linux users. The much anticipated (by me, at least) release of Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 4 arrived on Friday.
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 - I Still Don't Like It
My intention today was to write a short piece about having loaded the latest Ubuntu Precise Pangolin pre-release onto various of my computers. Not much commentary, because I don't want to "review" software that is still in development, and not much detail because I'm honestly not much of an Ubuntu user any more.
Linux Mint Debian Edition, Update Pack 4
I wrote a few weeks ago about the approaching Update Pack 4 for Linux Mint Debian Edition. According to a new Mint Blog post, the release is getting near, and there is lots of good news about it:- Lots of updates, of course.
Gimme A Light Linux from Vector (7.0)
With the newly announced Vector Linux 7.0 Light you not only get to a lightweight Linux distribution, you get to choose how light you want it.
Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose
Sometimes you just lose, lose, lose, which is the kind of day I have had today. It started out with the stupidity of Windows Update.
Windows Update - Endless Buffoonery
I never cease to be amazed, amused, entertained and disgusted.I booted Windows 7 Stupor Edition on my Samsung NF310 this morning, and I am sure that I have not done that since sometime before the latest "Patch Tuesday", so I figured that I would install the patches while I had the chance.
Linux Mint 12 LXDE Released
The development team at Linux Mint have announced the release of the LXDE version of Mint 12. The Linux Mint Distributions have two major "branches", one derived from Ubuntu which is designated by a number (currently Mint 12), and the other derived from Debian, which is designated as Mint Debian.
Microsoft Flunks Computer Science 101
I love it when Microsoft confirms my extremely low opinion of them... ZDNet U.