Thursday, November 19, 2009

One day closer to Solstice


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"I guess feeling bad helps you know what feeling good is like ..."
~ Bob the Squirrel
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Carolyn has gone to the doc for her semi-annual checkup. I hope she has gumption enough to get a flu shot; this year's flu season is shaping up to be a dilly.
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A note on Windows 7: If you are thinking about installing it on a pc that is more than a year old, or if you have printers, scanners, or other external hardware, be aware that there may not be drivers available or the one's out there may not fully work. My three year old HP all-in-one is such a device; only the printer works with Win7, and that leaves me with a nearly useless scanner and fax machine. With Ubuntu Linux, I can use the printer and scanner, but not the fax. Another thing; legacy programs load very slowly on Win7, even though I have a pc with three processors.

On another OS note, the rumor mill is saying that Google is almost ready to release their Chrome Operating System, but it will only be pre-installed on certain netbooks. Pretty cool move if the scuttlebutt is correct; it will give Google a big step-up on the rest of the netbook field, and folks, netbooks are the future of portable computing.
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Many large American corporations are again showing enormous profits even though the economy hasn't begun a real recovery. They are achieving this feat by laying off workers, and the people whom are not cut are being forced to do the work of two or more employees. With one hand, big banks are paying back the Fed in record time, while they are accepting more bailout money with the other hand. Corporations are still thumbing their noses at tax payers around the world, and especially we sheep in the US. Huge executive bonuses are still being happily handed out using our tax money or borrowed money which our taxes will have to repay. Wake up, America.
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2 comments:

Mark said...

I read about Chrome this morning. It will be interesting to what happens when it does come out. Netbooks will be the way to go.
Something else to spend some money on.

Corporations plainly do not care about their employees for the most part. More and more it s about shareholders and not employees. It will only get worse.

hope Carolyn had a good check-up.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Mark.

Right now, China holds the key to the world economy; especially our corporations.

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