As mentioned over on I’ Been to Ubunutu:
The only netbook running Linux on Amazon’s Top 25 Netbooks list is the EEE 901, sitting at #19. The war is over, folks.
Two thoughts on this:
- If netbooks drifting towards laptops in terms of usage and cost, does the moniker mean much anymore?
- XP is familiar territory for a lot of computer users. It is hard to imagine a Windows being faster and better than XP on low-spec (true netbook) computers.
I was actually shopping for a Linux netbook recently and was a bit shocked to realise that even ASUS seemed to have switched everything from Linux to XP. Virus scanning slowdown and power consumption is one big reason I would be reluctant to have an XP netbook. That and the importance of installing software updates every week or so.
Nigel Stewart Linux, Tech Linux, netbook, xp
Letters to The Editor, The Age.
Believers – or not?
SO 54 per cent of Australians believe Jesus rose from the dead. I am astonished that the percentage is so high. What surprises me even more is that these numbers have not translated into more people following Jesus.
If the resurrection of Jesus Christ happened in history, something I am convinced of, how is it that so many Australians believe it is irrelevant to everyday life? It’s like believing in the discovery of penicillin and yet refusing to use it.
Pastor Murray Campbell, Mentone
Nigel Stewart Australia, Commentary Australia, illogical, relevant, religion
A recent ABC Background Briefing radio documentary looks at the role of MBA education in the current financial crisis: MBA: Mostly bloody awful.
What we taught were very simplified and not necessarily accurate models of human behaviour, that over time become self-fulfilling. And so there was this model that in fact by basically being self-interested to an extreme, that was the appropriate way to behave and act. And what that does over time, because this is not an innocent exercise, it actually over time because it is a professional school, comes to shape the identity of those individuals. That is, they begin to see themselves in those views. And one of the consequences of that is that if you look with respect to executive compensation for example, and the incentives around that, the view becomes that I actually have to be compensated to do the job I was hired for, and on top of that you have to bribe me with stock options to make sure I do that job. In no other occupation or profession is that part of the modus operandi.
Nigel Stewart Australia, Commentary, USA business, education, leadership, mba, podcast
