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HP: Industry Follower and Proud of It

I came across this article on Slashdot recently. It’s about HP not honoring it’s warranty for a PC because the woman was running Linux on it. Now, as someone who has run Linux on two HP machines off and on you’d think it would be the warranty part that I’d be writing about. But that [...]

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The Problem With Microsoft

I came across this Microsoft Technet article today. It’s the “Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Step-By-Step Guide”. You’d think warning bells would have gone off at Microsoft when this was created. It’s a road map to designing an activation strategy and infrastructure that Microsoft’s volume costumers can use. Activation provides no benefit to the company [...]

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Is Cable TV Obsolete?

Ok, I guess the obvious answer is no. But I began to examine whether or not I really need cable TV. I’m not talking about switching to satellite to save money to get the same stuff, I talking about dropping the whole concept. This was driven by three main events.
First, I’ve been getting more and [...]

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