A week or two ago I wrote a short rant complaining about the quality of AVG’s free anti-virus software. Although not strictly the same thing, spyware is quite a big problem on a lot of home PCs. Read the rest of this entry »
A few weeks ago I wrote a short couple of paragraphs on Ubuntu Linux and how easy it was to install for the home user. That’s all fine and dandy, but would a home user be able to cope with something so different? Was I able to cope with it as my main OS? Read the rest of this entry »
With Microsoft’s new flagship desktop operating system, Windows Vista, released in January I thought I’d have a go at installing it to see how it stacks up. Read the rest of this entry »
A very quick post for this evening. The last couple of days I’ve been running AVG’s free anti-virus application to see if you can really get top quality software for your PC for nothing. Well, over the last few days I’ve had memory leaks and crashes all over the place and using my PC has slowed to a crawl. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, what a Sunday today has been. I’ve been to the gym, Chelsea have beaten Everton, West Ham have won their first game under Alan Curbishley - against Manchester United, no less - and I’ve spent a rather large amount of time moving my blog away from Blogger and onto my own web space, powered by WordPress and Streamline.net.
For most people computer software is what comes with their computer. Usually this means some combination of Windows XP Home Edition, Internet Explorer, perhaps Microsoft’s Works suite and some CD/DVD writing software. The average user doesn’t tend to do upgrades either and as such, the uptake of open source software is relatively small outside the commercial and geeky community.