“The Customer may not always be Right, but the Customer IS ALWAYS the Customer.” — Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.com author, entrepreneur, entertainer, motorcycle enthusiast, elephant hunter. I have previously written about the folly of unreasonable demands placed upon customers concerning password assignment by well-meaning but misguided hosting service providers. Typically these password requirements include: password must…
Consumer tablet avalanche is coming
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
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.
EdUbuntu 12.04: Configuring to get work done
Last night we installed the new Ubuntu 12.04 Precise on our HP 6910p business class notebook from a USB memory stick. The installation went about as quick and painless as any we have done. We also installed Blue Fish, FileZilla, Chromium, Compiz configuration manager, and SSH Server, and did some configuring of the Launcher bar….
Heads Up!
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…