My effort to learn new things.

I installed a version of Linux called Ubuntu. I have known OF Linux for many years, but I never really took the time to learn anything about it. Now, if you are confused... Linux is an operating system like Windows and Mac. The difference is there are dozens of different versions of Linux (Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, etc,) and Linux..... is FREE. So this is a great idea if you want to give another OS a try and don't want to spend the money for Windows or Apple.

Google screwed up?

Yes yes, Google had something go horribly wrong. Sometime this past Sunday, about 150,000 Gmail users had their entire email history erased. Luckily, I wasn’t one of them. Google had said on Monday morning that it would be corrected within 12 hours. Now, on Tuesday afternoon, it still isn’t fixed. So yes, Google does make mistakes. But when Google makes mistakes, it pisses off a butt-load of people. I don’t think I could take the stress of 150,000 irate customers. The good side is that the emails weren’t lost forever. They are slowly being restored to all the users. Unlike the story about a Flickr account a few months ago where Yahoo accidentally deleted a users photos. While this would be that big deal to me, but this guy had over 5 years of photography in that account, with no backup. And Yahoo didn’t have a copy either. All his photos were just... gone.
If Google wants everyone to start migrating towards cloud computing, then they really don’t need to screw up like this. For cloud computing to be a viable alternative, all of your data needs to be at your fingertips at any machine, at any time. Right now, this isn’t the case. But I’m still anxious for that day.

I guess I should write a new post.

OK.... I'll get working on that.

Soon.

Google's Cr-48 - Part Three

I have now had Google’s Cr-48 netbook for a month, and I feel like I have a broader knowledge to share. So this will be my final installment of my review of the Cr-48. My apologies if I touch back on subjects I’ve already covered.

Google's Cr-48 - Part Two

Our 8 hour drive was pretty uneventful... as far as the Cr-48 and the internet are concerned. I blew through the 100mb of free data during the first few days of having the netbook, so I caved and paid the $9.99 unlimited data day-pass. I’ll admit, I was impressed watching Jenna check in to Facebook and surf the web in ease while I was driving through some small towns in rural southern Georgia. Now, in all fairness, Jenna doesn’t like to be constantly connected like I do, so she didn’t spend much more than an hour or so on the web, but the signal never faltered, which is really saying something considering how far away from civilization we were. No amount of cows or silos blocked the 3G signal. It is now our 2nd morning in South Carolina and the only time the Cr-48 has NOT been connected to the cloud is when I turned it off... which is when we were sleeping.