Apple delenda est.

A conversation this morning. "Hi I have two phones that the boys have that need fixing" "OK" "This one was dropped. It is a Motorola G. It needs a new screen. Can you fix it?" "Sure. (checks model number). It is the first model. We can… Read More

Why I wipe the OS and install Linux.

Simply put, I don't trust Microsoft. Or Apple. The latter (Apple) worries me more, because the only place I use Windows is in hospitals. I can let the hospital have the lawsuit when (not if) the NSA hoovers up confidential medical data, and then are… Read More

Mutterings on presentations.

I'm lazy. When I write a presentation I want to be able to use it in three forms:
  1. As a slide show. Over some kind of projector. Using whatever is available. Given the instability of powerpoint and the fact I don't run windows, this means some form…
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A small technical post, including fedora 18 beta.

Fedora 18 is almost out. I installed the beta onto a laptop a couple of days ago. The new version of anaconda looks pretty and worked well -- until I did something clever, which was try to use cinnamon as my desktop environment. That was broken… Read More