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Entries from April 2007

20 must-see Greasemonkey Addons(No Technical Knowledge Req.)

April 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I love the way that Firefox and Thunderbird can be extended by extensions. But I’ve been somewhat concerned about the reliability and stability of Greasemonkey scripts. There were a couple of features that I wanted to try (more on that later) so I broke down and installed it on my laptop. […]

Tags: Open Source · FireFox

Why we just have basic cable …

April 29th, 2007 · No Comments

We got an HDTV last year.  After a few months of watching DVDs on it, I started wondering what HDTV was like.  I tried getting an indoor HDTV antenna which didn’t work so well.  I started looking at DirecTV and Dish Network and upgrading to higher levels of cable with Comcast.  There’s occasional things on […]

Tags: Media · HDTV

Dell offering pre-installed Linux?

April 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Was reading Deep Jive Interests about Deep Jive Interests » Dell’s Crowdsourcing More Than Hype: Tells Microsoft to “Suck It!”
I’ve spent some time the past 10 days or so putting Ubuntu 7.04 on 3 PCs, all of them dual-booting some flavor of Windows.  Obviously there’s a lot of interest in doing this on Dell’s site […]

Tags: Home Computers · Open Source