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I tried upgrading to a new widescreen monitor. It was a 20″ widescreen monitor from Dell that receives decent reviews and has decent specs. But my current, standard aspect monitor is much bigger and nicer than I remembered. It’s a 21″ monitor, and it has a lot of niceties, such as a built-in USB 2.0 [...]

via DesktopLinux.com, Dell is apparently going to offer Ubuntu on a couple of new systems:
Dell isn’t resting on its recent consumer Linux PC laurels. The computing giant has added a new laptop — the Inspiron 1420 Notebook — to its Ubuntu Linux 7.04 offering. It is also replacing the Dimension E520 desktop with the [...]

My first hard drive was a 40mb hard drive for an Amiga 600. At the time I was thrilled to have so much space. How could I ever use up that whole capacity? Impossible, I thought. Absolutely impossible. Fast-forward 15 years or so. After the hard drive I just added to my system (and big [...]

Sweet: Open Source Software for Palm-based devices. Or, as I like to refer to it: lotsa new software for my ancient visor! Unfortunately, this website doesn’t list what version of PalmOS is needed for each appp (something that Palm Boulevard does a very good job of). But still, everything is open source and free [...]

When it was first released, I almost literally drooled over Handspring’s Palm Pilot “killer,” the Visor Deluxe. All that Palm goodness, but in a better designed package. How could it not be goodness? Unfortunately, it’s price tag of $250 was too rich for me back in 1999/2000. So I had to pass.
Of the years, my [...]

Talk about over-compensating: after years of sticking to a single-button mouse, Apple has come out with the Mighty Mouse, a four-button, scroll-ball, programmable mouse. It’s a beaut; I’m thinking of nabbing one for my Linux computer. I’m sure it won’t be long before someone has all the extra buttons mapped in X.org.

It definitely didn’t take long for new HP CEO Mark Hurd to start undoing former CEO Carly Fiorina’s ill-advised changes: “The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that HP has separated its personal-computer and printer units just five months after combining them.”
Carly decided to put her job on the line by combining the two divisions. It [...]

I built my current, basing it on an Asus A7V8X-X systemboard and AMD Athlon XP 2500+. For the most part, I’ve been very pleased with it. The only problem that I’ve run into is under Windows XP: The USB ports are detected as USB 1.1 ports, instead of USB 2.0.
This has been annoying me for [...]

Well, this ought to be a lot of fun. I make use of two personal computers. One is a Gateway Select, powered by an Athlon 700MHz processor. This was once my main computer (back when 700MHz was a pretty beefy system), then got demoted to the wife’s computer, and then got re-commissioned as my main [...]