Wednesday, April 30, 2008
OpenOffice [sarcasm] “Great” [/sarcasm] choice of Database Engine. Or was it?
It seems that in the world of software, the proprietary software gets hits pretty badly by the Open Source Software (OSS) environment these days. For example, take MS-Office (costing hundreds of dollars) versus the free (as in $0) Open Source OpenOffice.org (OO.o). OO.o is “almost” perfect: why did the developers used the sluggish HSQL for their native Base application database engine ??? Why not use SQLite, a most efficient and lighting fast database engine?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
So, Dell & Lenovo will offer XP beyond June 30th? Yeah right: read the fine print…
It looks like we’re not out of the woods with Microsoft. An ArsTechnica article tells us that Dell & Lenovo will apply the downgrade loop hole to get XP on new machines.
Now the fun part is:
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* One [b]must[/b] pay for Vista Business or Premium, your choice, and you’ll get XP-Pro installed.
* Microsoft still gets its tax on Vista and classifies the sale as a Vista sale, not XP…
Can’t win… Let’s give Ubuntu 8.04 another try..
Regards…
Thursday, April 24, 2008
My first Post: Who am I?
It is only fair for me, to let you know right off the bat where I stand. First, I got into computers in the late seventies when the micro-computer evolved into what was to become the most significant event of the 20th Century, as far as I’m concerned. We’re only talking something like 25 years, not centuries here… But it brought about significant events that changed forever the world we live in today.
I seen many changes, but never as many as we have seen in the past five years with the move of just about everything on the Internet… This is a real fertile ground for Rants and Comments and that is just what I will do.
