Since 1997 I have had some of my hardware invested to in one way or another host domains under my control. Before that I spent a few years wrestling with FidoNet and that pre-internet international flow of electronic mails. It started small with a harddrive that where put into a friends machine that we named [...]
Earlier this week I read about Microsoft planning to only allow two “major” hardware changes before it demands a reactivation. I frankly loved the idea since I figure this would gravely trouble the potential userbase and drive quite large numbers to start using Linux. Since ubuntu has now turned into something I could easily put [...]
I am befounded by the amount of stock spam I am getting and I would like to know how this can make anyone fall for it? The story is probably one of general stupidity and minimal gains with minor investment. I still feel that there is to much effort involved in spamming to make it [...]
I have become the owner of a few items of personal electronics lately and based on that and input from my friends I have noticed that everything should now be able to charge via USB. I have seen some hints of this in the last two years with the craze in USB appliances that did [...]
