There is an interesting article on the Register that discussed that about 35% of the hardware that was shipped capable of running Windows Vista being downgraded by the vendor or end user to Windows XP (hardware pool above 3000 units). My question is what about users or vendors that switched over to Linux? That is
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Worst-ahem-BestBuy has started to sell my favorite distro, and what I am using right now, Ubuntu for $20. To be clear, this is the same distro that can be downloaded for free. It is odd to see something like this during this day and age with the wide availability of broadband access. I mean 15
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Wow, it took the ditching of Vista and Sony to get better ebook support for my PRS-500. When I got my Sony Reader, I was hoping to take all my PDFs with me and enjoy them on a great little device. Sadly the Reader does a horrible job rendering PDFs in their native format. After
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Well it seems that the linux-uvc drivers are working as advertised and Adobe player support is just not in the cards. It seems, as far as I can tell, Adobe Flash does not support V4L2. The UVC drivers only work with V4L2. I guess if I need to record a seesmic session, I will need
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