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Consumer tablet avalanche is coming

kubulai — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:45:36 +0000

Last fall Hewlett Packard decided to end its consumer computer line and focus on commercial computers. At that time they also decided to liquidate their inventory of HP TouchPad tablets at $99 each which detonated a market response loud enough to awaken every potential tablet maker on the planet. The philosophy before that time had [...]

“Why” Microsoft has more desktop installs than Linux — Network World pontification

kubulai — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:39:47 +0000

With a small amount of commercial promotion, another Linux incarnation, Android, dominated the mobile device market (from 20% to at least 51% in FY2011) -- Linux on the desktop would have a similar change in market share with similar promotions. The real deal however is that OS manufacturer is becoming irrelevant with OS agnostic Cloud-based communications and apps that run in browsers, so eventually a for-pay OS that achieves nothing more than a free OS will fall away. [...]

Heads Up!

kubulai — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:19:31 +0000

Pay Attention! This is powerful. You carry your phone with you, use it when you are mobile.

When you get home you drop it into its charging dock and it connects to keyboard and screen — it is now a PC with PC performance, software, and features.

You go to a friend’s house, drop it [...]

Ubuntu Release Schedule

kubulai — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:29:57 +0000

The Ubuntu release schedule is rather hard to find: the link is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule

Ubuntu 12.04 will be released April 26, 2012. It will be supported for five (5) years thereafter.

How Linux is Made

kubulai — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:29:31 +0000

Forbes Magazine on SOPA

kubulai — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:26:39 +0000

SOPA Blackout [...]

Worst Passwords — Alpha Doggs

kubulai — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:01:49 +0000

Lists of the Worst / Most Common Passwords [...]

FaceBook ‘Like’ Removed from this site

kubulai — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:59:40 +0000

Due to our reasonable concerns that our site visitors could be spied on, illegally, through JavaScript connected with the FaceBook ‘Like’ button, all such buttons, for FaceBook and Google, have been removed from this site.

The Prince and the Occupy Wall Street

kubulai — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:29:39 +0000

I was asked what I think of all this Occupy Wall Street (OWS) peaceful protest, unexplainable violence aimed at the protesters, provocateurs placed into some of the protest groups to discredit them, and its importance now.

In my opinion, the most notable thing about this situation is that a lot of people are very unhappy:

The reported [...]

Windows 8

kubulai — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:57:29 +0000

Until we get a better manifestation of the brain-computer communication link the lowly keyboard will remain. Rumors of the death of the desktop are exaggerated at this time. [...]