So it looks like my track record for 2009 may not be all that bad, although for the most part my overzealous predictions anticipated more 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.
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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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. (more…)