Technology and Life
Lenovo and IBM are recalling extended batteries shipped with their latest models. Reason: If dropped they could catch fire or explode. Four injuries have already been reported. If you haven’t seen a ThinkPad with an extended battery, you’re probably wondering what all the fuss is about. Well, I’ve got one sitting on my lap right […]
http://www.joeanderson.co.uk/google/ Homage to OS X dock, but not as shiny as I expected. That must be the Google part of it showing through.
The Register reports that VMWare is ramping up the bad P.R. against Microsoft’s competing product – VirtualPC. This kind of marketing is probably good at this time of the year – it gets me prepared for the next onslaught of advertising from our presidential candidates. Microsoft realized it was getting left in VMWare’s dust so […]
Google has had their cross hairs on Microsoft for a long time. They claim to not be interested in what Redmonds’ up to, but they’ve been successfully picking off their weaker products like strangling tourists in a jungle of lions. This week, though – they took a shot at the leader of Microsoft’s pack, Exchange […]
I’ve officially made the switch away from Windows today. The R52 Thinkpad I use as my primary computer is now running Ubuntu. I haven’t the heart to compile Gentoo on it yet… but I hear it’s a smidge faster and lot lighter. So far so good – I’ve got wired and wireless networking up and […]