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If you haven't seen how small Shuttle's XS35 series of ultra small PCs are, then you need to look more closely at the picture on the left. The PC is the unit stuck to the back of the monitor. The XS3510M is now available with a Blu-ray player making this a full hi-def media device. Powered by Intel's dual-core Atom
Some of you will know that I'm a Linux user from my previous posts. I'm not a distro-tart: I tend to stick with a particular Linux distribution rather than swap between the different flavours. I started out over 15 years ago with an early Slackware release before moving to Red Hat around version 5 (1998?). I then hopped over to SuSE for
Last night, I downloaded some music from Amazon for the first time and I was both irritated and pleasantly surprised by the experience. I'd gone to Amazon because I'm not an iPod owner and wanted to get some DRM-free music for playing via a DLNA media server and also my Palm Pre. (I know this is a tech site but just
I always forget about this website. When I finally go there to check my site amongst OS browsers, I always find one small problem. Quick change in the CSS and everything is all better. I am talking about Broswershots. They simply take my site and call it up using different browsers on all Operating Systems. Linux, PC, Mac and BSD
I have an old Mac Mini that I wasn't using, so being bored I decided to install Ubuntu on it. Ubuntu is a well know distribution (distro) of Linux. The latest distribution is 9.10 also known as Karmic Koala, (all Ubuntu distribution are named after animals.). The first thing I did was I downloaded the latest distribution of Ubuntu as an ISO. An ISO is simply a single image of all files needed to install an application, in this case Ubuntu. I then burned the ISO to a CD using the burn option available in Disk Utility on the Mac. I did burn it at a lower speed then normal, which is recommended. I then placed the CD in the Macmini and restarted it, while holding down the C key when the chime rang. The first screen that came up asked me if I wanted to run Ubuntu without installing, install Ubuntu, check disk for error, or start from first hard disk. I decided that I wanted to do a full install, so I made that choice. (If you make that choice remember that you are erasing all data on the partition that you install it on.) The next choice I had was whether I wanted to use the full hard drive or a partition. I chose to use the full hard drive, hit the continue button and the installation ran without any problem. Once the installation is finished I set up my login name and password. I removed the CD and restarted the computer, Ubuntu started up without any problem.
Less is more. Less trouble equals more value. Lower learning curve equals increased value. That would be the theory of Microsoft in the recently leaked training notes for their operating system (as covered by www.appleinsider.com). To install Microsoft Windows 7 means that the PC user has less to learn compared to switching to a Mac, making it is more valuable.
Last week Microsoft announced the upcoming Windows7 will have a Virtual XP option. You will then be able to use programs that do not work in the new OS. So why shouldn't Ubuntu do the same? QEMU is a Open Source Machine Emulator. It is set so you can install another OS on a virtual window in Ubuntu. You can