Pledge in Spanish Incites Local Vet

A local news channel posted a story about a Spanish class reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. Normally this wouldn’t be much of a story, but a local vet decided that the Pledge should only be recited in English and went on a rant with his local VFD. Last month, a Spanish class at […]

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on its way!

Firefox isn’t quite out of beta yet, they’ll be tossing the fourth beta release on the new distro. As soon as Firefox goes final, it’ll be available in the updates. The Ubuntu 8.04 is in beta and is available now, final release will be in… well, scroll up a titch and look at the pretty […]

Crouching Vista, Hidden Telnet

I use the command line a fair amount of time because its a quick and easy way to perform small tasks with different input. Like DNS lookups using dig, or FTP just to grab a quick file without having to configure yet another FTP profile in my FTP client. Telnet is one that I truly […]

April Fools on the Internet… so last year.

Sorry to disappoint, but there’s not enough fodder on the web to post much. Thinkgeek.com has their annual April fools wares, but other than the typical fake news stories most of the offenders last year have been straight. Google… I was expecting so much more this year.

Apple’s Safari Push Backlash

Windows users who installed and use iTunes are familiar with the Apple Software Update. This is a great utility to ensure everyone stays up to date with the latest bug fixes and security updates. This week Apple has decided this would be a great way to push down their web browser to Windows users, regardless […]