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News – Google Chrome for Linux, Thunderbird 3.0 & Malware for Ubuntu
Dorian is currently concentrating on writing and getting things ready for Christmas. So in the meantime, here are some new stories to tide you over: Google releases Google Chrome for Linux. The fine folks at Mozilla release Thunderbird 3.0 The first major malware attack against Ubuntu users has happened. I guess that confirms that Ubuntu…
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News – Chromium OS is Here
Chromium OS is Here Google just announced their Chromium OS project. This will act as the open source precursor to Chrome OS. And the folks at Canonical are helping Google build it. Exciting times ahead, especially for netbooks users and cloud computing advocates. Thanks to the 451 Group‘s Matthew Aslett team for posting about this.
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News Flash – Linux Desktop Suck, Android is Not Linux and the Nokia N900s Dropping Out of Orbit
These past few days have seen Dorian scrambling to catchup and not blogging. Dorian still feels the need to fight his e-mails, update his “other” sites and organize his cluttered life, rather than update his readers on exciting developments he has worked on. Instead Dorian will continue writing in the third person, and highlight the…
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A Brief History About Google
Check it out! A brief history about Google Co.: Thanks to Andre Noel for the discovery: http://en.andrenoel.com.br/?p=130
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The Chrome and the Cloud
Google today announced their Chrome OS project. The details are sketchy for this announcement. This Chrome OS apparently stems from the Chrome web browser that Google released last year. A sort of instant-on netbook operating system, that meshes the hardware with the Internet cloud. Google claims the OS project differs from the Android stack that…
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My Head in the Clouds – Cloud Computing
After much resistance, I extended part of my life on-line. The reality is that technology plays an important role in my life. I organize, communicate, create, distribute and entertain through computing. But even with Palm, a decent Linux workstation and the web to my disposal much of this technology and its benefits are separate. While…
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Laptop Ubuntued and the Quest for Desktop Searching
After my lengthy post on the issues of installing Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop, I am pleased with the results. I managed to fix the suspend issue that plagued me with this post. So I am almost ready to “give back” the laptop to my brother. After hearing yesterday about the Google XXS…