The bbc being random April 19, 2007
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Im in a picky mood,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6571139.stm
^^ talks about M$ software being sold cheap, then goes on to talk about the one laptop per child project, which uses linux. Without saying the onlpc uses linux – ies it creates the impression tha tonlpc uses M$. blah.
What if ? April 9, 2007
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I had gone to some sort of guitar college rather than university ? Would I have got in ? Would it be as fun as I think it would ?
As you might have guessed Im starting to find my course a little intense. Bring on summer 
M$ drop DRM… April 7, 2007
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Real inventive M$….just after Apple drop it, Microsoft follows their lead. But yeah, the point…
is that now the Zune becomes more attractive. It has a feature that lets you share music with other Zune users, but M£ used to have DRM on the music that you shared, you could only use it for 3 days then it deleted itself, or wouldnt let you play it, something like that.
But now, no DRM, means you can keep the music. Hopefully. Which would make the Zune great
Unless its been recalled…..I havent seen one in the shops since it was released…In fact, Ive never seen anyone with one…
Our servicemen and women, are back! April 6, 2007
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Which is great! They all appera to be physically ok, although they may have suffered from some stress or something along those lines, as hte follwoing bbc article demonstrates:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6533069.stm
If what is in that article is true, Iran ought to be ashamed – they treated our servicemen disgracefully. It was bad enough to make the woman where a headscarf, but what they did there was unacceptable. I can but hope the PM does something about this.
Technorati: Iran
Linux and Dell April 4, 2007
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So Dell anounced a week or two ago that it will offer its customers the option to have their computer arrive with linux preinstalled.
What does this mean for the customers?
More choice. which is always good. They will be able to try linux without the hassle of installing another operating system, and without having to setup a dual boot. Although this is ‘easy’ for the technologically aware, most people would brick it at the thought of doing this. This should also take the hassle out of configuring a new linux install. From personal experience, even ubuntu never works ‘out of the box’, although it does come pretty close. Things like sound never worked properly – I always struggled to record my guitar into my ubuntu desktop. Hopefully Dell wil lsort out all those little things 
What does this mean for linux?
A greater following if anything. Theyre certainly not going to lose followers from Dell offering linux alongside Windows. Hopefully this will also mean a faster development cycle for whatever distro is chosen, as bugs get reported quicker due to more people using it. As always, a gain for one distro is a gain for all distros, as everything in the linux community is shared.
Whats does this mean for M$?
Unlike what many Linux geeks think, this will not be the deathblow to windows. There will always be windows until games manufacturers start releasing games natively for linux (and OSX ). Until that point there will always be windows.
The BBC’s announcement of Dell offering linux:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506027.stm
Had a look at the Dell website and their not yet offering Linux on any of their machines. I say any, I looked at one (Home, Desktop) and assumed they havent yet 
