* Posts by tjdennis

6 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Jul 2009

Lightning strikes USB bosses: Next-gen jacks will be REVERSIBLE

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This is just about the money

When did we as a society come to the conclusion that figuring out which way to plug in a connector is the biggest problem we need to fix?

I'm betting this is more about making money off new cable sales like Apple did. As everyone here has mentioned, we all have drawers full of USB cables and will never need to buy another one. The cable making industry is scared. New connectors will mean new cable sales for a few years along with other peripherals. At least until USB 4 comes out.

GNOME 3: Shocking changes for Linux lovers

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FAIL

Congrats on upgrading to the Windows 2.0 interface!

All those windowing capabilities that Windows 3.0 introduced must have been too much for them. Overlapping windows? How scary!

Maybe in Gnome 4 they can progress to text mode windows so that we can imitate the DOS shell! Then we can have batch driven menus again.

Dell sandboxes Firefox to boost corporate security

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Virtualize Firefox?

... Cause, Firefox wasn't slow enough to load? Or didn't consume enough memory?

Why are they trying to secure Firefox anyway? It's IE that's the biggest risk.

Apple antenna guru 'warned Steve Jobs' over Judas Phone

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Just give the bumper a new nickname

Call it the Steve Jobs Rubber. Apple will find another solution ASAP.

Apple loses students to netbooks and Windows

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Netbooks can do almost anything

For a student or even office worker, a netbook can do almost anything. I have XP on Acer 150 with Office 2007 so I can work on almost any kind of document needed. I even have Visual Studio 2008 installed and it works perfectly fine for doing software development.

For entertainment, I can easily play any mpeg4/divx/xvid file without any problems. You can hook up external speakers easily enough if you'd like some good volume. Or, get a USB sound card if you want good stereo. The only time I ever see a stutter is if I'm trying to play over wireless. The hard drive (160gb) is large enough to put all my music and favorite videos on. And if I want more space, I can always attach external drives.

If I want to sit down and do some real work, I can very quickly plug in a USB keyboard/mouse and a 24" monitor. Close the lid on the netbook and work as if it's a desktop. The 1.66Ghz Atom processor in this thing is still faster than the last Dell laptop I had from work.

Apple really missed the boat on this one. There is no reason a student shouldn't get a netbook instead. Mine was only $400CDN and the best purchase I ever made.

Debian rejects open-source .NET threat claim

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When will Linux users learn from history

I'm still surprised that Linux users refuse to learn from Microsoft's accomplishments. What is the one big reason Windows became so popular in the business world? The answer is Visual Basic! That one tool allowed millions of companies to start writing their own internal applications quickly and easily.

Well, the old Visual Basic is now out and .NET is in whether it be with VB.NET or C#. Companies are again doing all their new internal desktop development on these languages and this technology. If the Linux user base ever wants to get Linux in the door of these businesses and on user desktops, it MUST start promoting the use of .NET and mono. Supporting these company's .NET based applications takes away an excuse to stay on Windows.

I also don't believe Microsoft is going to come after the mono team. Microsoft is going out of their way to help enhance MySQL, PHP, and now Apache to run on Windows. They just want things to run on Windows as well as they do on Linux. If .NET applications are portable between the two, that makes them happy as well since you could choose their OS.