Things non-Windows

This is being posted using Internet Explorer 6. Firefox is still used for general surfing and checking email, but until someone develops a decent popup/popunder filter for Firefox, IE6 appears more trustworthy when uploading to the web at this point. All along it has been said that my faith in Firefox was not complete. It is still a really nice browser, but the spyware jerks are working overtime to wreak havoc with their popunders and other such trash. Hopefully, in the next week or so Windows will be gone from this machine and Linux will be the resident operating system. No big deal, just changing operating systems around for convenience and security. Installing Linux is certainly no problem, just have to wait until my newer XP machine is completed. Besides, the fingerprint reader only works in IE6 and that's a kewl way to enter passworded sites.

Was over at Slashdot which is usually a good site for info, but sometimes their Apple Nazism gets in the way. Zonk posted a link to an article about Apple being 16% of some voodoo way to count numbers of overall computer users: Thoroughly muddled was I for a few seconds by the doublespeak. Apple is lucky if they have 3% of the market. If Microsoft hadn't injected a large chunk of change into their company back several years ago, they would not exist today. The iPod has been good for Apple, but it is only a mid-fi device. Most reviews indicate several devices that are superior and far more flexible. Oh yeah, did you send your iPod back and get the exploding battery exchanged? Anyway, I am still considering the purchase of a Mac just to improve my skills concerning service calls on these overated, overpriced, yet sorta' pretty formfactor computers.

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
-Frank Herbert