Archive for May, 2009

The cranky CIO says “the hard drive is in the computer”

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

iTWire: This puzzles me, why do so many people call their computer “the hard drive?” I seriously wonder if it is being taught somewhere. So, I had a rant about it.

Impressively, it was SlashDotted – a lot of people must share this angst.

Happy mother’s day, Linus Torvalds

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

iTWire: Today, May 10th 2009, is Mother’s day for many countries around the world from Anguilla to Zimbabwe. How fitting, then, to offer a tribute to Linus Torvalds, the “mother” of Linux.

Testing Windows 7RC on an entry-level netbook

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

iTWire: I wanted to know how well Windows 7 (release candidate) would perform on an Acer Aspire One. Here’s how it went.

(This article was SlashDotted! Yeah!)