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Windows 7: Microsoft Continues their SPYING practices

xophvuiiMicrosoft posted a disturbing article…

Does everyone remember that wonderful time in the last 10 years as Microsoft continued to muck with everyone’s machines with WGA; interrogating and SPYING on peoples machines to see if they were ‘genuine’?

And does anyone remember the back lash from the public about the rampant parade of false positives, from the the trial and error of the incompetence of Microsoft’s WGA?

Well, they’re starting it again…

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AnDROID gets Dragon NaturallySpeaking?

DROID Dragon NaturallySpeaking

ANDROID has voice recognition from Google built right in to the Operating System for DROID, but the recognition of Dragon NaturallySpeaking is far greater than Google at this point.

So one of the very first questions that hit my mind was after the iPhone was provided Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and I understood how it works…

How long is it going to before DROID is going to get Dragon NaturallySpeaking?

 

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VirtualBox just keeps getting better

virtualboxI found VirtualBox back in March and it’s been just awesome. Version 3.0.10 has been released; I was notified via the automatic updater [yea! I love those things].

If your an IT Administrator/Consultant or just a ‘Curious Jobe’, your going to find yourself loving virtual box. It’s like playing the house with firecrackers, but the house is made of [well] everything fireproof.

I mean seriously, who likes living not knowing how everything works and what it takes to get to this, or that point- not me.

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Impressions: Working with Ubuntu 9.10

Ubuntu you 910I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu the other day to my DELL M60 laptop; it’s about 5 years old and it was really struggling with life as a laptop with Windows. I had issues with power, issues with hibernation and issues with staying connected with my wireless router.

I was incurring all these problems and I figured, what the hell, what do I’ve to lose? If I screw it completely up, I’ll just reload Windows and go back to shoveling muck around; just like I was doing before.

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What’s Interesting…

Here’s some stuff I’ve been looking at…

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Post: The closer we get… (http://cli.gs/t8TU9) [#]
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Stupid AT&T/DirectTV. We called to let them know we’re moving &when &they muck it up!They muckup my current line up &muckup the new. Morons. [#]
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Reading: Marlene H. Phillips: Obama Confronts Misinformation About Health Care Reform, Back In Campaign Mode http://tinyurl.com/m49xvh [#]
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Reading: FCC asks us all: what, exactly, is broadband? – Ars Technica http://tinyurl.com/newccm [#]
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If people you’ve known for 20+ years tells you ‘your outta character and help/change is needed’ you should listen. They are trying to help. [#]
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Browsing: Evolution Of The Human Appendix: A Biological ‘Remnant’ No More http://tinyurl.com/mdr9eu [#]
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Browsing: Bumblebee Costume Does Actually ‘Transform’ – Auto Motto http://tinyurl.com/mr36st [#]

Thanks for reading!
Enjoy.

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