A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft’s Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant. Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October, and the machine was delivered a few days later. As Mr Mitchell was planning to run the Linux open source […]
Not to be outdone by Best Buy’s Seven Hour Specials, rumors suggest Walmart will release 8 Secret Deals. The first may be a RCA 52″ Widescreen Projection HDTV for $474.00. Walmart will only show the full monty online on Thanksgiving Day. The 8 Secret Deals will not appear in circulars. Yay, more hype beast. Expect […]
I’ve been talking about this for a few years. Apparently some think it is right around the corner: Possibilities We see 3 scenarios for a GoogleOS: A web based desktop (i.e. operating system) A full featured Linux distribution A lightweight Linux distro and/or BIOS We’ll try to explain each of these in detail – then […]
No matter what anyone says, Bismarck is growing in leaps and bounds. I know for sure because the city has added stoplights to four intersections just on my route to work and that is the city’s answer for growth: add stoplights and cops. What this means for the rest of us is there is more […]
Looks like they kept a few things out of the add: Extra 7 Hour Specials Technorati Tags: Best Buy, Black Friday, 7 Hour, Sale, Specials, Deals
40. Fire employees over the phone, or worse, through a text message. 41. Ask for personal favors, especially when you know your employees are in no position to refuse. 42. Rifle through your employees’ personal desks or snoop around their workspaces.43. Misuse your company’s expense account for personal reasons. If you argue that your employees […]
How to Mod your Xbox to play burned games Now I really may consider buying one! Technorati Tags: Xbox 360, Xbox, mod, burned, games, how-to, how to
Pretty neat collection of portable applications for your USB thumbdrive: Today’s big news is that PortableApps Suite 1.0 has been released! This integrated package of portable software includes popular programs like Firefox, OpenOffice.org and Thunderbird along with an integrated menu and easy-to-use backup utility. The other big news is that Firefox Portable 2.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 […]
Having dinner tonight with Sara and Brenden and Jason and Kristy tonight at the Ground Round. Haven’t seen either couple for a few weeks so this should be fun. Hopefully Jason will revert back to his old self, sans chick-TV-mindset that he has picked up in Napoleon!
I thought some of these were funny, but I guess you have to be somewhat of a geek to appreciate… How to determine if you are an engineer Technorati Tags: humor, funny, jokes, list, engineer, test
Jon Barnhardt
