Category Archives: Rant

Roasted Laptop

By popey | Published: March 8, 2010

Some time ago I bought a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop. At the time it was the fastest thing I could buy. It was also the heaviest! With a 17″ 1920×1200 screen and all the toys, it’s a bit of a dead weight. It was always intended to be a desktop replacement, so …

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The Trouble With Tablets

By popey | Published: November 27, 2009

I’ll cut right to the chase. I have a 2.5 year old Toshiba M400 laptop which is also a tablet PC, and the rotate options don’t work ‘properly’, and they never have. Many others have similar laptops, and theirs “don’t work” either. I’d like this to be fixed, but don’t know how to achieve …

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BBC Breakfast Talk Up Windows 7 Dismiss Rivals

By popey | Published: October 21, 2009

Update: Please see Reply from Rory, and his blog entry describing his experience with Ubuntu.

Rory Cellan-Jones discussed Microsoft Windows 7 with Sian Williams and Bill Turnbull, the presenters of BBC Breakfast this morning. Once again the BBC reporting of Microsoft products turns into a bit of an advert combined with a slap in the …

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Someone Stole My Brompton

By | Published: May 15, 2009

Apologies to anyone reading this on a free software planet. If you don’t live in the South UK then this is likely of zero interest. Skip it.

Travelling on the 17:03 First Great Western Train out of Gatwick heading to Reading, I got off at Farnborough North station without my bike. Someone had taken it …

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Asus, The Fair Weather Friend

By | Published: May 14, 2009

Dear Asus,

I write to you as a customer of your Eee PC line of computers.

I’d never really considered buying any of your hardware up until you released your Eee PC line of products. When I discovered that the Eee 701 was pre-loaded with (Xandros) Linux and came pre-configured with all the usual applications that …

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