dannosite

I recently decided to dump my 7-year old installation of Windows XP (that's right, never reloaded or anything on the same box for seven straight years) in favor of PC-BSD. Why?

- I use OpenBSD heavily at work and at home.

- I can't afford Windows7.

- I don't need much (apps, games).

- I like to try new, neat stuff.

- I need flash for hulu, youtube, etc.

- Those guys at PC-BSD are hot-to-trot that they have the solution for me.

So I tried it out- not even on my main home system, but on another, lighter one. And it performed... okay. There were times of sluggishness on the display-side, but I quickly chalked that up to a 32-MB built-in video card on an old Intel-865 board with a single core and 2GB of pc3200 RAM. I explained it away, I thought.

Recently I've had a coincidentally high number of conversations with friends, coworkers, and assorted random strangers about driving in South Florida. Driving down here can be a nightmare- often a frustration, and sometimes downright deadly. And perhaps the latter begets the former- being as dangerous as it can be in South Florida to commute, it's no wonder it's a frustrating excercise, nevermind the delays normally inherent in any trip. Of course, the frustration is exacerbated by poor driving, but I'm getting ahead of myself here.

not South Florida, but it might as well be.

Not to be outdone by Apple, and indeed, using their technology, CNN today has introduced the IWall, a bigger-is-better competitor to the IPad. A CNN correspondent can be seen here introducing it-

"It's the Ipad... only bigger. And it needs it's own seat at the table."

I'm about to update the site, so don't expect it to come back any time soon because I'm sure to screw something up along the way.