Learning to love the computer, warts and all, Jan 06, 2002

... because of computer weirdness, I regularly see an entire morning's work -- sometimes as many as 18 words -- get blipped away forever to the Planet of Lost Data. Needless to say, I use Microsoft Windows. I've been a loyal Windows man since the first version, which required you to write on the screen with crayons. Every year or so, Microsoft comes out with a new version, which Microsoft always swears is better and more reliable, and I always buy it. I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.

Two companies in the United States and Canada have teamed up to produce what they call "the first fully featured Internet computer based on Linux and the Mozilla browser."

The Future Power AIO, powered by open source software from OEone of Quebec, Canada, and produced by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Future Power of Fremont, California, is the first completely open source machine available to consumers in an all-in-one package, OEone president and CEO Eid Eid told TechExtreme.

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