I came across two interesting pieces of news this morning: HP is cutting back on telecommuting. By August, most of HP's IT employees will be required to work from one of HP's office instead of from home, even though HP pioneered the telecommuting trend starting in the late sixties....
Earlier this week, Apple unexpectedly released their Bootcamp software, which allows owners of Intel based Macs to dual-boot into Windows XP. Bootcamp itself appears to mainly consist of the required Windows XP drivers, whereas a firmware update is actually responsible for enabling the dual boot feature. For the most part, this sounds like a pretty good deal to me....
Here's a cool way of using Google to find MP3s. Essentially, it's a simple matter of using a query like the following: intitle:index.of "mp3" +"Keyword" -htm -html -php -asp "Last Modified" (replace Keyword with the name of an artist, song, etc.) There are a whole bunch of similar (and other) Google tricks on this website. Update: The following two websites further automate this process: G2P ExploSeek
I so need to get me one of these babies: MacBook Pro....
I just realized that it's been a little over a year since I pretty much permanently switched from Windows to Linux! I had been using Linux on and off over the past 10 years or so, but it wasn't until a year ago that I seriously ditched Windows in favor of Linux. On December 30, 2004 I blogged about my Gentoo installation, which I had completed the week before....