Friday, October 7, 2011

A Fallen Legend

Steve Jobs passed away October 2011. Apple is in mourning the loss. Steve lost his battle with cancer. Although we have differences in opinion on what is good for consumers, we also have the same viewpoints. Steve had an uncanny since of what he saw as the future of computering. He strived for perfection and excellents in all he did.

The technology revolution would be totally different if he wasn't a part of it. He pioneered the revolution. He saw a way to market his ideas, and was very good at convencing people that his ideas were not crazy. He will be missed. What is the future of Apple now? Only time will tell.

One of the True Great Idea Man of the 20th Century


Monday, October 3, 2011

Linux New Beginnings

Linux can bring life to old hardware depending on what distribution you use. This is good and bad. It is good because this means if you have an old system then you do not have to spend money on the system in order to know that it is fully patched and updated. It will still provide an acceptable user experience, and your PC will run as good if not better than it did on the previous operating system.

The con is that you shouldn't expect the system to do graphic intensive operations on an old system. Don't try to run the latest version of Ubuntu or Fedora on a 10 year old system.

But old systems are good for the grandparents or people who just want to surf the internet or do wordprocessing. That is a good way to recycle that old PC.