http://thehardsix.com Web and Gaming Nerdery Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:08:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A friend of mine recently asked me if I thought Ubuntu was suitable for his mother-in-law. In a nutshell, he didn't want to spend the money for a MacBook given that she is a very basic user. So he bought a Dell laptop with Vista Home Premium and both him ... http://thehardsix.com/2009/03/usability-and-linux/ The new Star Trek trailer is out. I've been a Star Trek fan since before I could walk. I could give you a summary of any TNG episode if you gave me nothing but the episode name. Anyone who calls me out on this gets my Skype name and ten ... http://thehardsix.com/2008/11/star-trek-reboot/ The last of three articles I have decided to resurrect from the Hard Six archives. I've added some minor addendums as well. Resolution independence. There's a good chance you've heard of this. Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard" supports it, and Windows Vista partially supports it. What is it, and does it matter ... http://thehardsix.com/2007/12/regarding-resolution-independence/ From the Hard Six archive, part of my continuing effort to repost my favorite articles. This was originally posted on 30 November, 2006. But if Zune1 isn't an XBox, why does everyone seeking to defend Zune argue that since the XBox was a success, Zune will be too? And no, that ... http://thehardsix.com/2007/12/zune-is-not-an-xbox/ So, here's the post that made me famous. The original, unfortunately, has somehow ended up in /dev/null/. So here's the new and improved version. And thanks to Leopard, we can see this little easter egg better than we ever have before! CSSEdit 2.0 is an amazing app, I use it all the ... http://thehardsix.com/2007/11/cssedit-2/