Category Archives: Tech

Dell and Ubuntu!

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

and Dell is starting to ship computers pre-installed with Ubuntu. I would assume that these computers have been specifically built to ensure compatibility, which isn’t all that difficult these days, except for the video cards. I feel like this is … Continue reading →

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Google is an easy target

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I just got done reading the latest Cringley which of course revolves around my favorite bunch, Google. (For those who don’t know me and didn’t hear my quite amusing story, I interviewed at Google and after the phone screen, 2 … Continue reading →

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How VI would look if Microsoft wrote it

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

An awesome blog post and animated image: http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would

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Vista morning ponderings

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ve tried to post this message 3 times this morning and three times I’ve lost the post. First it was IE7 sucking and then it was my hosting company sucking worse and finally I’m starting over again. This time I’m … Continue reading →

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MSDN is down

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I just went over to MSDN to look for my product keys from my subscription which I received at last years Microsoft Technology Summit. However, looks like someone really messed up a deployment of that application and I got one … Continue reading →

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