Slip Sliding Away…

The technology battlefield is littered with casualties. The walking wounded have gone mad and are turning on the very people that they need to survive.

As I write this, I am using Firefox on a Fedora Core Linux Operating System. The hardware is ancient but reliable in todays terms. The windows box sites idle (except for the nightly virus-scan) and may soon be delegated to running linux as well. I have been slowly moving away from costly Microsoft solutions and have only held on for this long because of my gaming habits. After my windows machine took a dive this last week I began working to get a GUI (Graphical User Interface) on at least one of the linux boxes so that I would have a backup should windows decide to dive again.

I have no desire to go thru the hassle of re-activating my XP install when it comes time to clean the machine of it's many ghosts and the thought of Vista makes me want to swallow jet fuel. Slowly but surely, Microsoft is alienating the very people who would have helped to keep it alive.