I’ve finished my Dell internship with the Linux OS Engineering group (which was amazing) by driving 21 hours from Austin back to Cleveland. I’ve got a week off and then I head back to Purdue. One of the projects I took on over my little vacation was setting up RAID1 (mirroring) on my existing six-year-old [...]
It looks like Dell isn’t done with Microsoft yet. They’ve joined the Novell/Microsoft alliance, giving it “industry” validity. I don’t know how much I like this and it’s hard to say were the future of operating systems is going. Microsoft’s got their foot in the door with the Novell alliance but now that a big [...]
I’ve been talking to a lot of people about Dell and the current state of desktop/laptop computing. In particular, my friend Phil and I were talking to some Amazon.com engineers and they brought up the sad fate of Gateway. Gateway was in the same position Dell is now, maybe ten years ago. They ruled the [...]
With Apple’s release of the iPhone, I realized something so obvious it made me laugh a little to myself. I’ve never had a good cellphone. I’ve never had a friend who had a good cell phone. I’ve never even heard of a good cell phone. What do I mean by “good?” A good cellphone is [...]
Mark Shuttleworth has posted a response to Dell’s Linux survey on his blog. He brings up two main observations: the first being “margins on PC’s are razor-thin” and the second being “free software fans are a fussy crowd.” Both of these observations are presented in a way which seems to say it will be hard [...]