Thursday
Jul222010

Re-organizing Things

I’m trying something different with the site. I didn’t like the way my pages were separated requiring a separate set of RSS feeds for each section, so I’m moving everything into the “Moe’s Blog” section and dividing them up with tags instead. Let me know if this helps at all or just confuses you. Hopefully this way no one will miss an update to another section.

Friday
Jul162010

Thoughts on the Nook/Kindle Six Months Later

For our anniversary, my wife purchased me a wifi-only nook (she’d been listening to my frustrations about library books on the Kindle). I purchased an M-Edge Executive leather case for it and slipped in the M-Edge e-Lumiator light I had been using on my Kindle (which had an M-Edge Go!Jacket). Here are my thoughts after using both devices extensively.

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Saturday
Jul032010

Apple: Worse than my HMO

Updated on Monday, July 5, 2010 at 11:37AM by Registered CommenterMoe

Apple insists that you only service their products through them, which means calling customer service or visiting your “local” Apple Store. There are 3 stores in my metro area. I realize that’s a lot better than some of you. Nevertheless it takes me an hour or two to get to any of the three, and when I do they won’t take a walk-in.

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Tuesday
Jun292010

Linux Mint 9 "Isadora"

Linux Mint is an interesting project to me. They epitomize the idea of taking a good idea and improving upon it. In this case, the good idea is Ubuntu Linux. Mint is a “value-added” distribution that polishes Ubuntu to a gleaming shine and puts it on display. All that’s missing are some booth babes.

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Thursday
Jun242010

Arch Linux 2010.05

I swore to myself I’d stop doing these Linux rants. Okay, so maybe not swore so much as strongly encouraged. However, I realized today that there’s a kind of Linux distribution I haven’t yet seriously touched upon, and that is the rolling-release distro. Arch Linux is one of these.

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