On several occasions I have had to help people with the cache settings in Firefox. Recently with a blogger who's blog I find myself reading a lot. She's trying Firefox again and according to her she had stopped using Firefox before for the same reason. The problem is that Firefox by default check's for the newest version of a web...
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Be advised this post is for the layman. No technobable here. If you want technobable and to learn more about FreeSpire click here to visit the FreeSpire website. I have been saying that Linux is not yet ready for the desktop, mostly because of driver problems, and the ugly fonts—especially when browsing. FreeSpire has changed my...
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Do you ever wonder if history factually happened the way they were represented in that recent video documentary or history book you just read? I do. Let's take the recent history of the computer revolution (as some have called it), I personally don't see the revolution–I see an evolution. Over the years I have been told about...
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Ars Technica has come out with an article (Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures) detailing the evolution of the personal computer. Don't let the name of the title fool you, it is an interesting read into the 30-years of the personal computer market, from the early days of the Altair (1975–1977) to...
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Continuing with the theme of my last post, I will now give my account of my adventures with my Atari 130XE 8-bit computer. The Atari 8-bit was the first computer I owned. My mother bought it for me in 1984. This computer came equipped with 128-Kbytes of memory (which was 64-Kbytes more than the norm at the time), built-in Atari...
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I was looking over my resume today—which I haven't kept up-to-date. When I glanced over the part where I wrote about my adventures as a one man Internet Services Provider, I get a sense of wow come over me. I would never even bother with doing something like this today. Things have changed so much. You see, I physically ran...
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I don't care how many times Linux fanatics beat their chests decrying the lack of adoption of Linux by the masses. Linux on the desktop is just not ready for "prime time." I have been using Linux since Mandrake 9.1 and computers since 1984, so I know what I am talking about when I say Linux is not ready for the desktop. The...
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