Are you fed up with all that openness of the internet? Don’t you wish you could have someone to watch over all your internet activity and bring some order to all the chaos of doing whatever you want?

Just because a bunch of world market dominating companies and various organizations, including Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, have launched there Global Network Initiative which fights to increase privacy and rights online doesn’t mean you have to be stuck with all that freedom.

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Most of us are accustomed to getting Linux for the same price as fresh air, but recently Ubuntu, the most used Linux distribution of all, is hitting store shelves at Best Buy and for a mere $20. “Why should I pay for something I can get for free?” you may be asking yourself. There are two [...]]]>

Most of us are accustomed to getting Linux for the same price as fresh air, but recently Ubuntu, the most used Linux distribution of all, is hitting store shelves at Best Buy and for a mere $20.

“Why should I pay for something I can get for free?” you may be asking yourself. There are two reasons: To start with, it comes with a printed documentation — and those are becoming hard to find these days, mainly because of the cost of printing and the ability to search electronic files have made physical files obsolete, or at least there getting there.

The best reason, though, is that you get sixty days of limitless tech support for free, courtesy of Canonical. Two months is a fair amount of time for a new user to get Ubuntu set up and running, and if they can’t quite pull it off there is always the Ubuntu forums, and the most recent version of Ubuntu (that would be Hardy Heron) comes with a nice array of tools for making migrating or dual- booting even easier than ever before.

As far as the price goes, it is about right. Last time I saw a boxed Linux distro in a Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), it was Suse, and it wasn’t cheap either, at a whopping $100. After a quick online search of Best Buy, they don’t even carry it anymore, which isn’t surprising. I would love not only if this became popular, but if Ubuntu got some competition in this area, maybe a Red Hat based distro, or maybe even Suse, but for a reasonable price. I can’t wait to see this take off and see where it goes.

microsoft strives at being moron friendly

“you have chose to delete this file(s). Are you sure”
*clicks yes*
“you have agreed to delete this file(s). did you mean to do that”
*thinks to self “no of course not, thats why i clicked it” and clicks yes*
“If you delete this file it will be permanently lost. Do you still wish to continue?”
*clicks yes again*
“the file has been deleted. if you deleted the file in error you can retrieve it from the recycle bin”
*clicks ok and thinks to self “omg im glad that’s over” and goes to IE*
*types in digg.com*
“this page is not encrypted, if you visit it you could be intercepted by a 3rd party”
*thinks to self “ok ms, then make your browser more secure so i dont have to worry” and clicks ok*
“internet explorer has encountered an error and needs to close”
*clicks send error report*
*a blank window pops up*
*waits a few seconds*
*another window pops up and says “windows encountered an error displaying the previous error. would you like to repair windows?”
*clicks yes*
*5 minutes later*
“windows has been repaired successfully but needs to restart for the changes to take effect.”
*clicks restart*
*at the boot screen chooses ubuntu*

and people ask me why  I don’t use windows.

Segway is a 2 wheeled vehicle that is like a scooter, but instead of the wheels being one after another the wheels are right next to each other. Which takes some serious balance which is exactly what the segway does.

The Segway uses a gyroscope to keep itself balanced. People use these to commute to work or just for Fun! To move forward you lean forward! Same to go Backwards and stop except you lean backwards or just stand straight up. to Turn you lean the Handle bar to the Left or Right. I love the Segway I think its an incredible invention!

To get more Information on Segway go to Segway.com