Attack of the Macs

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Bob Moss

I’m sure you’ve seen the numerous blog-posts dotted around the net about the fact most university students these days seem to have a Macbook of some description (I can testify for instance in my flat that 3 out of the 7 students own one), and in that respect this is no different. What this article [...]

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Don’t call proprietary software evil!

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Bob Moss

That may sound strange from someone who claims to be a free software advocate, but I say this in response to the Free Software Foundation’s recent gaffs, including motions to protest by holding up Apple store operatives by asking awkward questions,  setting up a site about ‘Windows 7 sins’ and sending letters to Fortune 500 [...]

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Triple-Booting Fun

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Bob Moss

My Sony Vaio was working perfectly well. I had the pre-installed version of Vista Home Premium (Sony remove a lot of crapware and install some genuinely useful stuff such as Microsoft Office 2007 (non-commercial edition) and Adobe Studio. Not so sure about VAIO media guide though…!) and Ubuntu Intrepid (toggling between KDE and Gnome depending [...]

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