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Annual 2010 Predictions

So it looks like my track record for 2009 may not be all that bad, although for the most part my overzealous predictions anticipated greater adverse impact from the general state of the economy. Fortunately, things are looking better now so for 2010 these predictions should be a little more grounded.

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Living with Mac

My last full-time Mac was a Centris 650, at the time I spent a lot of effort getting the Houdini 486 PC board running so that I could boot MS-DOS and possibly Linux. While Houdini never lived up to my expectations, the modern Mac is transformative in many regards.
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HDCP Hell

My Samsung SyncMaster 215TW is a fabulous display that has proven challenging to configure with Ubuntu. At the very top of the list is the inability for the DVI connector to do anything at all, even when the computer starts in text mode there is nothing onscreen. After plugging in a Windows laptop, it seemed the only conclusion was that DVI is effectively unsupported on this display. Read HDCP Hell >>

Virtual Box Virtual Keys

While a new Mac OS X laptop might be the perfect system for hosting a cornucopia of virtual machines, you may soon discover that many of the Mac function keys are already used by your laptop subsystem. How do you get something as simple as F12 to access the virtual BIOS using VirtualBox?

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Where is Starbuck’s?

Over the past few years, Starbucks has been embroiled in a succession of business transitions. At first, they started to try serving lunch, and then they explored the idea of a cooked breakfast menu which was followed soon after with Pike’s Place. Unfortunately, the results have been less than satisfactory and now Starbucks is grasping at even more outlandish ideas when perhaps they should be more focused on their core business.

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