The Houlden Report 1-2-2012
Wow its been four years! I can't believe the time has flown.My Duration with Linux Ubuntu began a very long (and intriguing) journey into downloading various OSes on ISO images and test driving them to death!As of late I have even delved into the most unique depths of Apple OS and found a wise creator used a virtual machine to emulate a Mac and created the Mini Mac (small enough to store on my thumb-drive)and it enabled me to create virtual floppy disks on the fly and then run them on Mac OS 7.1 and has become one of my favorite things to do on my PC.Another Blast from the past That I also ran across was The (what used to be COMMODORE owned) The Amiga OS! OMG! these guys took the old POWER PC architecture CPU (that was running MOTOROLA, COMMODORE,APPLE)and revamped it and are still selling the CPU in a totally new way!It Appears they rewrote the CPU code to make the POWER PC run just as fast (if not faster then) the intel rendering.On their site http://www.amigaos.net/ they ask "Remember when computing was fun?" lmao they were not kidding.That was a day when both COMMODORE/AMIGA and ATARI meant GAMES and a computer you attach to your TV set... lol well i downloaded the ISOs to my secondary Hard drive to burn to cd or DVD later on. KUDOS TO AMIGA!
I want to also take time to remember Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. It seems like only yesterday I was messing with an Apple II computer.That was the very first Apple computer Marketed that wasn't a kit.It was yesterday..lol I own two of those. You'd have to remember it was before the LISA (with the OS7.0) and the Mac (OS7.1).The OS for the Apple II was all text mode (DOS-LIKE) and you were able to write to floppy.In fact the whole OS was on floppy.There was no Hard drive in these.But still cool to tinker with.
Ther are two messenger software programs i wish to mention: PIDGEON was a good multi-platform,Multi log on messenger service but showed as they were catering to WINDOWS users more then linux users (sorta odd because PIDGEON was originally GAIM messenger for redhat,KDE,Gnome,LINDOWS,LINSPIRE and FREESPIRE and PIDGEON for UBUNTU) as soon as windows users got the knack of using pidgeon,it seemed it left out its roots. wake up pidgeon or you will be birdfeed!
Another multi-platform messaging service is trillion! wow! all the designs of trillion 5 surpass all expectations of this old service thats been in the dark room for decades (along with ICQ and FROGGER) they woke up! and wow i am using it more then the original software like Yahoo,AIM,MSN Messenger,etc.I LOVE IT! I give trillion a TRILLION STARS!... my highest ever rating! http://www.trillion.com
New technologies to mention well there is now the solid state hard drives,derived from thumb-drives and the saying good-bye to the cylindrical IDE hard drives.this also means Steve Gibson of Gibson research corp. http://www.grc.com is going to have to update spinrite to accommodate for the new solid state drives.Sorry Steve,looks like you have more work to do.According to the research I have done lately,the only one single problem prevents me from changing from a cylindrical hard drive to a solid state drive.The one problem is "BURN-OUT".that happens when a solid state drive gets so warm that the solder points where the chips are mounted come loose from the board and the short out.NOT a reliable source for MY DATA! Until hard drive manufacturers can create a Cooling system for those on them and make them accessible to the user,I am sticking to what works!
well that's it for now for the tech corner.I am Mike Houlden and this is The Houlden Report.See ya next time and HAPPY COMPUTING!
I want to also take time to remember Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. It seems like only yesterday I was messing with an Apple II computer.That was the very first Apple computer Marketed that wasn't a kit.It was yesterday..lol I own two of those. You'd have to remember it was before the LISA (with the OS7.0) and the Mac (OS7.1).The OS for the Apple II was all text mode (DOS-LIKE) and you were able to write to floppy.In fact the whole OS was on floppy.There was no Hard drive in these.But still cool to tinker with.
Ther are two messenger software programs i wish to mention: PIDGEON was a good multi-platform,Multi log on messenger service but showed as they were catering to WINDOWS users more then linux users (sorta odd because PIDGEON was originally GAIM messenger for redhat,KDE,Gnome,LINDOWS,LINSPIRE and FREESPIRE and PIDGEON for UBUNTU) as soon as windows users got the knack of using pidgeon,it seemed it left out its roots. wake up pidgeon or you will be birdfeed!
Another multi-platform messaging service is trillion! wow! all the designs of trillion 5 surpass all expectations of this old service thats been in the dark room for decades (along with ICQ and FROGGER) they woke up! and wow i am using it more then the original software like Yahoo,AIM,MSN Messenger,etc.I LOVE IT! I give trillion a TRILLION STARS!... my highest ever rating! http://www.trillion.com
New technologies to mention well there is now the solid state hard drives,derived from thumb-drives and the saying good-bye to the cylindrical IDE hard drives.this also means Steve Gibson of Gibson research corp. http://www.grc.com is going to have to update spinrite to accommodate for the new solid state drives.Sorry Steve,looks like you have more work to do.According to the research I have done lately,the only one single problem prevents me from changing from a cylindrical hard drive to a solid state drive.The one problem is "BURN-OUT".that happens when a solid state drive gets so warm that the solder points where the chips are mounted come loose from the board and the short out.NOT a reliable source for MY DATA! Until hard drive manufacturers can create a Cooling system for those on them and make them accessible to the user,I am sticking to what works!
well that's it for now for the tech corner.I am Mike Houlden and this is The Houlden Report.See ya next time and HAPPY COMPUTING!
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