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Microsoft doesn’t deserve free advertising
Both major TV channels in New Zealand ran major stories on the launch of Microsoft Vista a few months ago. The TV One version was basically a wide-eyed and breathless advertisement for the product. TV3 provided something slightly closer to news (as opposed to advertising). Microsoft should have to pay for its advertising like everyone [...]
Corporate grab for control of your computer
Check out http://www.againsttcpa.com/ and http://www.lafkon.net/tc/ (a really cool video). The free Internet and the free and open source movements have given a taste of what computing freedom is like. Who would want to go back to high-cost, centralised control?
Creating modem applet for Xubuntu
Install xfapplet using synaptic. Add to taskbar. Configure to include modem. Right click to activate. BTW being able to switch from Ubuntu (GNOME) to Xubuntu (XFCE) using logout, is very handy. Don’t even have to redo the wireless network connection. [Update] – it wasn’t quite so smooth doing all this with my grandparents’ Dapper Xubuntu [...]