Ready for the floor.

[reddragdiva]

• Linux share on netbooks is 32%. Yes, Microsoft lied — surprised?

• NotN: Global "vaguely giving a shit" portal to launch; Device that “smells” snake oil could identify terrorists.

Today at work I was reminded of why proprietary software should never be bought in under any avoidable circumstances: because even if you've got a nice company who work hard on support, it's still an impenetrable black box with a tap into your wallet. Open source software is like backups, redundancy and support contracts — things people just don't understand the vital necessity of until they actually get bitten in the arse by not having them.

My commute is much shorter. I get home vaguely capable of speech! I write a NotN and play with Freda. It's before midnight and I'm actually relatively relaxed. I'm also no longer worried about money, even if we haven't got any. Life is good.

Comments

[heliumbreath]

If you've got a decent vendor, that's usually also a sign that they're about to get borged by someone who wants to EOL a competing product and/or service.

[redcountess]

Good to hear! BTW, the Netcomm NB6PLUS4W was a dream to set up via the Macbook and Firefox and after a bit of Googling I was able to set security to WPA Personal with a hexidecimal passkey, and there's now wifi internet access on the Macbook, the Advent 4211 and the Nokia 5800 :)

[reddragdiva]

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