New Operating systems are on the HORIZON..
Well,I will say I am impressed with the UBUNTU based JOLIE OS designed for netbooks.Right now,I am using it (Dual booted with windows 7 ultimate on both my laptop and my desktop).The design is simular to the iPhone where the apps appear on your desktop.It epitomizes the phrase "making your old PC run like a new on.And "Turns Your 10 year old PC into a totally new pc".This OS Meets up with its expectations and then some.I found its ability to instantly find drivers for older PC,as easy as turning on the light switch.
I admit that I have not spoke too much about OSes but I can say that the easiest Linux to learn is Ubuntu based.I give JOLIE OS 4 out of 5 stars in my ratings.I admit that it wasn't until 1998 when Linux was just beginning to be easier to use.My experience with windows had some ups and downs too.I give Windows 7 a 5 star rating as well.Windows 7 is the best version to date.Aside from the fact you do have to "Call home" on occasion.As for speed,windows 7 has the agility to be cleaner,faster,and more resilient then any version before it.It caused the death of windows XP.
I was shocked to find a Apple iMac G3 at a thrift store for habitat for humanity.There actually were two and both had the OS8 software with them.I was estatic!It was leaving me with the perverse thinking that it was difficult to know such a beautiful computer was the "POWER PC"version of a pentium 3 computer.That particular iMac is the last time Apple used a CRT monitor.The ability to have a customized all in one PC.
Speaking of Apple,It is sad to see Steve Jobs leave his CEO position at Apple.Those who are in the know,would know that Both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple back in the early 80s.No one would have seen it coming.They ushered in the home computer era.Microsoft finished ushering in what apple was doing.
It used to be the three heads of the computer industry.It was Steve Jobs for Apple,Bill Gates for Microsoft,and then there is Linus Torvalds of LINUX. Now,we saw the trends change.They came and went.Nowadays,Its John Scully for Apple,Steve Ballmer For Microsoft,and Linus Torvalds for linux.
I would tend to think that the technology has advanced a long way from the first apple computer.it just had a computer curcuitboard with no mouse or even a keyboard.Apple isn't alone in starting up from HUMBLE beginnings.Microsoft started when Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote the first "Basic" program for the Altair computer in the mid 70s,and then started writing DOS for IBM in the latter 70s.It wasn't till 1980 that Microsoft started to become Microsoft.
Now Granted,I can paint a humoristic mental visual that in 50 years,the whole world will be nothing more then one huge computer,and that computer sex would be when one computer goes off and then the other gets turned on.
It is easy to say (in whole or in part) that Bill Gates,Steve Jobs,and Linus Torvalds are visionaries in their own right.Each saw the computer evolution as a world that uses a more efficient way to communicate,work and play.
Who would have known that a 26 year old fellow would work on computers clean up till he is 51 (like myself).who would have known? but,here i am plugging away after all these years.There are more gadgets i want to discuss as well.Who would have thought we'd be smoking "E-Cigarettes"? or watching an Analog TV using both a Digital to Analog converter and a VHS/DVD player combo?Back when I began computers,I was watching VHS tapes for video.Remember the SONY BETA-MAX?talk about the "Way-back Machine"......lol and who would think that an album of tunes can be on a little disc? well we do have them.. Remember the MINI-DISC? and the LASER DISC? Those were huge in size and later became the predecessor to the Digital Video Disc (DVD).
Well that about does it for this edition of Mike Houlden's Tech Corner for now.Until next time,happy geeking.. :-)
I admit that I have not spoke too much about OSes but I can say that the easiest Linux to learn is Ubuntu based.I give JOLIE OS 4 out of 5 stars in my ratings.I admit that it wasn't until 1998 when Linux was just beginning to be easier to use.My experience with windows had some ups and downs too.I give Windows 7 a 5 star rating as well.Windows 7 is the best version to date.Aside from the fact you do have to "Call home" on occasion.As for speed,windows 7 has the agility to be cleaner,faster,and more resilient then any version before it.It caused the death of windows XP.
I was shocked to find a Apple iMac G3 at a thrift store for habitat for humanity.There actually were two and both had the OS8 software with them.I was estatic!It was leaving me with the perverse thinking that it was difficult to know such a beautiful computer was the "POWER PC"version of a pentium 3 computer.That particular iMac is the last time Apple used a CRT monitor.The ability to have a customized all in one PC.
Speaking of Apple,It is sad to see Steve Jobs leave his CEO position at Apple.Those who are in the know,would know that Both Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple back in the early 80s.No one would have seen it coming.They ushered in the home computer era.Microsoft finished ushering in what apple was doing.
It used to be the three heads of the computer industry.It was Steve Jobs for Apple,Bill Gates for Microsoft,and then there is Linus Torvalds of LINUX. Now,we saw the trends change.They came and went.Nowadays,Its John Scully for Apple,Steve Ballmer For Microsoft,and Linus Torvalds for linux.
I would tend to think that the technology has advanced a long way from the first apple computer.it just had a computer curcuitboard with no mouse or even a keyboard.Apple isn't alone in starting up from HUMBLE beginnings.Microsoft started when Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote the first "Basic" program for the Altair computer in the mid 70s,and then started writing DOS for IBM in the latter 70s.It wasn't till 1980 that Microsoft started to become Microsoft.
Now Granted,I can paint a humoristic mental visual that in 50 years,the whole world will be nothing more then one huge computer,and that computer sex would be when one computer goes off and then the other gets turned on.
It is easy to say (in whole or in part) that Bill Gates,Steve Jobs,and Linus Torvalds are visionaries in their own right.Each saw the computer evolution as a world that uses a more efficient way to communicate,work and play.
Who would have known that a 26 year old fellow would work on computers clean up till he is 51 (like myself).who would have known? but,here i am plugging away after all these years.There are more gadgets i want to discuss as well.Who would have thought we'd be smoking "E-Cigarettes"? or watching an Analog TV using both a Digital to Analog converter and a VHS/DVD player combo?Back when I began computers,I was watching VHS tapes for video.Remember the SONY BETA-MAX?talk about the "Way-back Machine"......lol and who would think that an album of tunes can be on a little disc? well we do have them.. Remember the MINI-DISC? and the LASER DISC? Those were huge in size and later became the predecessor to the Digital Video Disc (DVD).
Well that about does it for this edition of Mike Houlden's Tech Corner for now.Until next time,happy geeking.. :-)
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