2008 February

Goodbye Stage6

It has not been a good week for video formats.  First HD-DVD, now Divx.  No, the divx format will still be around, but the best thing they ever offered, in my opinion, Stage6, will be gone at the end of the month (and it’s the shortest month of the year!). It was a video-sharing website [...]

Revisiting KDE4

A series of unfortunate events gave me a golden opportunity revisit KDE 4. My previous post regarding it was not a shining one. There were serious limitations with Plasma, and Konqueror was, at least on Kubuntu Gutsy, unusable. I had two hard drives in my computer, an older 80GB one with the operating system and [...]

Goodbye HD-DVD

I saw the writing on the wall nearly a year ago, while so many continued dishing out money for extremely expensive HD-DVD players and DVDs.  Have people learned nothing from these types of “format wars” of the past?  Hello?  VHS vs. Betamax?  What did you expect?  Now, nearly a million people around the world are [...]

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