Al's Blog-o-Sphere

WHERE AL TRIES REALLY, REALLY HARD TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND LIKE A MAC.

Well, it’s been a few weeks since I finished building the 3-in-one Intel Atom PC. If you remember, I put three operating systems on it in tri-boot setup, Windows XP Pro SP3, Ubuntu Linux 7.01 and Mac OsX 10.5.

Now that I’ve had time to play around with them a bit, I’ll give my impression of the OS’s.

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Thanks to one of my friends on Facebook for sharing this

Well, not to be outdone by Barak Obama’s big speech at the republican Convention, John McCain couldn’t wait until next week to announce his running mate.

In what is quickly becoming an Internet meme, people have begun Twittering Sarah Palin Little-Known Facts.

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On February 17, 2009 all full-power broadcast television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. Digital broadcasting will allow stations to offer improved picture and sound quality and additional channels.

My prediction, should you care, is this will be the beginning of the end of over-the-air Television.

Oh, sure, I’ve seen Digital TV. I have one. I have it connected to a full-sized, rotating antenna. It takes that much to get it to work.

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