‘One Laptop per Child’ to Switch from Linux to Windows?

As posted to our Ubuntu users Meetup forum, by Jay: One Laptop Per Child may eventually switch from GNU/Linux to Windows http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/23/sigh/ It seems like locking kids minds into proprietary frames still remains a priority for the educators. So here is…  My email correspondence with OLPC just now… ____ To: press@racepointgroup.com Is it true that [...]

Free Yourself from the Proprietary Corporate Greed of ‘Big Brother’: Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Always choose the superior Open Source Free Software. Now, there is an equivalent or superior Free Open Source version of all the best software that exists. Do you use Ubuntu Linux on your PC and laptop yet? Google does.  Did you know that Google’s search engines are all running 100% on Linux?  Not Windows.  Not [...]

Yet Another Reason to NOT buy Vista

…as if we needed one. Microsoft’s Media Center Does Not Record Television Shows from NBC Microsoft has come out with an astounding admission, courtesy of Greg Sandoval at CNet News: “Microsoft included technologies in Windows, based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission),” a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. [...]

Ubuntu Linux is More Than Twice as Fast as Windows XP — Latest Performance Benchmarks

Ubuntu is 2.3 times Faster than Windows XP, acording to the latest performance benchmarks. ~ Free yourself from the closed proprietary ‘Big Brother’ of Microsoft, Apple, etc. Choose  Open Source Free Software. Are you using Ubuntu Linux on your home computer yet?  Do you use Google?  Did you know that the Google search engine you [...]

Companies we Boycott and Why

Sometimes — against huge multi-national global corporations, and governments, and world banker elites — you may feel powerless. But… We’re NOT powerless. Use you hard earned dollars, as well as your vote, to make the world a better place for us all. Here it is! The current list of companies’ products and services that… We [...]

Bruce’s Favorite Things

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS — currently being edited Here it is! The ever-evolving list of products, services, and stuff… that Bruce just loves — Bruce’s Favorite Things Each one is brilliant in its own way. Check them out. You’ll be so glad you did… (please be patient… as this list is currently being [...]

How To Not Get Sued for File Sharing

The recent article, How To Not Get Sued for File Sharing from the Electronic Freedom Foundation, makes me think… First, I highly recommend you read it. Follow the link above and study it. Meanwhile… Remember the old days…. when your friend wanted to borrow that book on your bookshelf. And you loaned it to her. [...]

Why you should Always Post your Customer Comment Card on your Blog

This is a Perfect Illustration of my point… In my recent item, called “Why I’ll never use Fandango again!“, there is a new response, as of yesterday… This last comment illustrates, and proves, exactly what I was explaining in my article above… The company itself responded… as the second reply, in fact. Every company “monitors [...]

Learning a Language and Attending Harvard, all for Free, while Commuting to work on a Bicycle

This is Unifying the Planet …fast! That’s right. All any human being needs is… an iPod (or a cheap iPod knock-off from China, or any other cheap MP3 player, or a computer) and an occasional internet connection. A 16-year-old boy could be riding a bicycle in Bangladesh… and… a middle-aged construction laborer could be sitting [...]

Future of Internet Radio in Immediate Danger

Ed and I are absolutely in LOVE with our favorite music radio station… We don’t know what we’d do without it. We listen to it all day long, and all night… until we can’t stand it any more and just need silence! It’s a music radio station on … Live365.com (specifically, the station there called [...]

BayIMG has been DOWN since Yesterday

What’s up with BayIMG? For those who don’t know about it yet, BayIMG is the new free — censorship-free — image hosting service just launched 3 days ago by the folks over at Pirate Bay… It is awesome, and amazing… No registration, no sign up, no login, no need even for any fancy url to [...]

Keep Internet Radio Free!

Your ONE phone call… could make all the difference. Or, better yet, open a blank page in Word, type in the above lines…  Then paste in one of your two Senators’ name and address above it (which you can get from the link below)…  Print it.  Then pase in the name & address of your [...]

Hidden Spyware in Free Site Stat Counters

A Shocking Betrayal of Trust Whenever any site asks you to include some bit of code into your own web page or blog or whatever — which is becoming more and more common — there CAN be risks. BE WARNED: You need to have a lot of trust in that site, or company, who is [...]

Is Microsoft Guilty if Ransom Note is in Word?

A great editorial from Sunbelt Software… Should Technology Makers Be Responsible for How You Use Their Products? It’s becoming increasingly popular to extend legal responsibility for illegal behavior way beyond the person who actually commits the crime. Bartenders are sued or even charged criminally if a person who buys alcohol from them drives drunk. Gun [...]

Hard to Find 800 Numbers

You keep these companies in business, yet they hide from you. They’d probably prefer it… if you would just slide an envelope of cash under their door once a week… and then go away! Here are the Top 5 offenders…   Amazon.com 800-201-7575 877-251-0696 866-348-2492 206-266-2992 Cust. service Seller support Rebate status Local or int’l [...]

Skype to Announce Disruptive Pricing Strategy

Luxembourg, December 19th, 2006 — Skype is to announce a new pricing structure for SkypeOut worldwide. Further details will be available from January 18th, 2007. The new pricing strategy will provide over 136 million registered Skype users with more exciting and cost-effective ways of keeping in touch with their friends and family across the world. [...]

Miami Beach Resort Fees CAN be Disputed!

I just posted this on the BiddingForTravel.com forum — where users share information about how much Priceline hotel rooms and rental cars are currently going for… ~~~ About a so-called “Mandatory Resort Fee” when I never even selected that I wanted a “Resort” – only a 4star Hotel… We have stayed at several Priceline Miami [...]

Paid-for Blog Posts & Ad Blogs are Illegal Fraud

From Yahoo News, comes… Ads Masked as Bloggers New Online Marketing Ploy and Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored Posts and… Just for the record…Even though I often write about products and services that I love… or don’t love… No Posts on THIS blog… Bruce’s Journal… will ever be Paid-for. I think it is deceptive and fraudulent [...]

83% of Videos Downloaded from Illegal P2P Sites

Five out of six videos downloaded from the Internet come from illegal peer-to-peer web sites, an ominous sign for an entertainment industry spending big on video download technology. See full article from today’s New York Post. To see how everyone is doing it, check out How to Download Everything You Want for Free. ~ Click [...]

Why do we Put Up with Customer ABUSE?

Why why why why why….. Could SOMEONE please tell me why….. In this, the 21st Century…. In the richest nation the world has ever seen….  Why do we put up with “cable companies” who schedule a “window of time” for you to take half the day off work… Only to receive a phone call half way [...]

RSS is… FAR from “Really Simple”

What type of RSS Feed would you like today?   Do you understand what all of these are for? Originally, as the story goes…  RSS stood for “Really Simple Syndication”… However, if it was ever simple…    RSS is far from simple today… Each of our shows have their own podcast… and each podcast has its own RSS feed… [...]

Want to keep the internet free? Do your part!

Greedy corporate interests are lobbying Congress to try to allow them (internet infrastructure companies) to force content providers (webmasters) to pay them extra “protection fees”.   Anyone who refuses to pay these “protection fees” will have access to their web sites purposely slowed down   ….as compared to those who do agree to pay these “protection fees”. [...]