Yesterday Oracle announced that it is buying Sun. I learned Unix on a Sun Sparc workstation several years ago but at first it didn’t seem to have an impact on me (other than Oracle will now own the hardware as well) but then I thought … hmmm, Sun owns Open Office, MySQL, Java and other [...]

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Google is not the reason for this. I’m wondering why the iPhone has this limitation – if it is an limitation of the iPhone itself. I’m wondering if it may be a limitation of ActiveSync as well. Sphere: Related Content

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I’ve been watching these “I’m a Mac. I’m a PC.” commercials. In the beginning I thought they were funny but they’ve reached the point where they’re essentially saying “Hey, you’re cool if you use a Mac” and “You’re not cool because you use a PC”. When exactly did the term PC become synonymous with Microsoft [...]

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I’ve been using Linux (specifically Ubuntu 8.10) on my laptop faithfully for about two months now.  The only reasons I’ve had to revert to Windows is to use image editing and video editing software that I purchased.  I’m also using another Windows PC that I have to handle all my iTunes downloads and syncing.  Other [...]

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