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Well huh — There really *is* a Google PC!
02.Nov.07 | 2 Comments
Back in January of ‘06, I put out a speculative little article titled, “The Google PC?“ Almost two years later, there really is a Google PC! Well, kinda. It is by Everex, called a gPC and runs an operating system called gOS (apparently a linux variant).
It sports a VIA based CPU, 512MB of ram and [...]
Get a PC
22.Feb.07 | Leave a Comment
(allow me to point out, this is in the “asides” category…)
These ads completely cracked me up. Check them out.
Mysterious Disappearing Drives
08.Jun.06 | 2 Comments
Here’s a bit of a stumper. For the past several weeks, my “main” home machine periodically loses any recollection of having 2 of it’s hard drives. What’s odd is that one is SATA and the other is an external USB. Fortunately, at least, the primary SATA drive doesn’t go anywhere. The [...]
Frankenputer!
11.Mar.06 | 1 Comment
My wife and son(s) share a computer here in the home office. And they suffer greatly from the “who will shoe the cobbler’s family” syndrome (yeah, I paraphrased). Actually, my own home machine is getting a bit dated for that matter (barton 2500+). But they had it much worse — the mighty [...]
The Google PC?
02.Jan.06 | 1 Comment
Ok, I don’t think I ever saw this one coming. LA Times is running an article that mentions a Google PC. Woah. From the article:
Google will unveil its own low-price personal computer or other device that connects to the Internet.
Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, [...]


