Tag: Computers

• Upgrading to a Mac Mini

  For those who don’t know, the blog is a side project. I earn money selling my web services over the internet. It works out great because I can work from home, being otherwise retired, and it’s work I enjoy. 2021 was a banner revenue year for my small business, which also means I’ll be paying…

  Mark

  January 8, 2022

  Technology

  Apple, Apple Computers, CISC architecture, Computers, iMac, Mac Mini, RISC architecture

• Linux Mint may be the Windows killer

  I haven’t used the Windows operating system as my principle operating system for ten years. For a decade I have been using an iMac with its MacOS operating system and paying a premium for the privilege. I didn’t mind though. I just couldn’t stand Windows anymore. And since MacOS was basically written on top of…

  Mark

  July 11, 2018

  Technology

  Android OS, Chrome browser, Chromium browser, Computers, Debian packages, iMac, LibreOffice, Linux, Linux distros, Linux Mint, MacOS, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows, Windows 10

• Speculations on the new computing paradigm for the 21st century

  Last September I speculated that the introduction of the iPad might mean the death of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft seems to have gotten the iPad message. Last week it gave a preview of its newest incarnation of Windows, Windows 8 Metro that according to reports is looking very iPad-ish. In fact, apparently it’s hard to find…

  Mark

  March 4, 2012

  Technology

  Computers, iPad, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Windows, Windows 8

• Thanks are not enough, Steve

  It’s not news that one of the founders of Apple Computers and the visionary behind a plethora of Apple (and other) products died yesterday. Even people who don’t usually tune in real news tuned into the news of Steve Jobs’ passing. There’s a good chance when they got the news, it appeared first on their…

  Mark

  October 6, 2011

  Technology

  Apple 2 Plus, Apple Computers, Computer Programming, Computers, Sir Isaac Newton, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison

• iMac Journeys, Part Three

  I promised when I got my iMac last year that I would give you periodic updates on my experiences, pro and con. Okay, I have been a bit tardy, having last written about my iMac last July. My iMac is now a routine part of my life and frankly, I give it less thought that…

  Mark

  February 22, 2009

  Technology

  Computers, Operating Systems

• iMac Journeys, Part Two

  After a couple weeks, my iMac and I are settling in comfortably together. There is little sign that this marriage will require a quickie Las Vegas divorce. Mostly I love what I am experiencing. However, after having spent the last fifteen years in the bizarre world of Microsoft Windows, I can see it will take…

  Mark

  July 10, 2008

  Technology

  Computers, Operating Systems

• iMac Journeys: First Impressions

  Back in January, I pledged to buy an iMac this year. I did not actually receive my iMac until Monday. Unbelievably, it sat in its packing box for four days. Hey, I was busy doing other things like buying a car for our daughter to drive to college. Last night I finally felt that I…

  Mark

  June 28, 2008

  Technology

  Computers, Operating Systems

• Mac Attack

  Is it too much to ask your PC just to work? Apparently so. I have been living in the Microsoft universe almost universally since 1988. Why did I buy PC after PC and keep putting Microsoft on it? Was it because I thought that MS-DOS or Windows was the neatest and most reliable operating system…

  Mark

  January 22, 2008

  Technology

  Computers, Operating Systems

• The universal translator arrives

  One of the fun things about watching classic Star Trek TV shows back in the 1960s was marveling over the fantastic devices that were waiting for us in the 23rd century. The only problem is that just forty years later many, if not most of these devices have already arrived. The communicator was a neat…

  Mark

  April 7, 2007

  Technology

  Computers, Star Trek

• Rehosted

  This will be a short entry. My writing here lately has been constrained because (a) I have been busy at work (b) having Google abandon my blog has made it more difficult to get inspired (c) I have been busy doing phpBB modifications work for clients and (d) I have been up to my armpits…

  Mark

  December 6, 2006

  Life 2006

  Blogging, Computers, Internet, MovableType, phpBB