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Archive for January, 2009

Run Moblin 2 Alpha on a MacBook Pro with VMware

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | 12 Comments »

Just tonight I ran across the moblin project that the good folks over at Intel are working on and it sounds too good to be true. Boot times are insanely fast - like 5 seconds, and the download is impossibly ...

Digital TV deadline to get a push by Senate?

Monday, January 26th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings | 1 Comment »

Reading over at engadget it looks like we might be getting a reprieve from the raging cluster-$%^! that would be the transition to Digital TV next month. I would have to say that isn't a real surprise and if you're ...

The inauguration of Barack Obama

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Blatherings | Comments Off

The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama was the first inauguration I have watched in over a decade, and I am glad I watched it. Around 10 am or so yesterday we decided at work we would setup a projector in ...

Steve Jobs possibly up for a new Liver

Monday, January 19th, 2009 Posted in Transplant | Comments Off

Poking around on The Huffington Post today I find a snippit about Steve Jobs possibly looking at a Liver Transplant, which linked to this article on Bloomberg.com. Jobs just recently took a leave of absence from Apple to get his ...

Windows virtual desktops: harder than it looks

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments Off

I have been living with my virtual desktops for a little more than week or so, at least consistently, and I have found that my initial infatuation with DeskSpace was blinded by lust. After running it for around 36 hours ...