Dell notebooks + preinstalled Ubuntu = still pathetic :(

You can take a look here and second page here (pages might be very slow) - however the final result is still very poor - suspend does not seem to be able to resume and only WEP seems to be available (and even that only works sometimes) - you might actually get better results with some other distributions that are not 'preinstalled' by Dell ...

And since we are on the subject of Linux distributions - Mandriva is still my favorite but right now Fedora 7 looks very promising - it comes with kernel 2.6.21 by default (which is a few revisions better than Mandriva) and seems to have better support for the latest things ...

Small Apple stuff

Some good points why only rich loosers will jump on the initial iPhone ...

And in case you wonder - Apple still has 100% control over your iPod and you have little to say - see this post ...

However there is one Apple criticism that I don't share - as long as the hidden info discovered in the DRM-free tunes do not contain stuff like credit card info I (also) do not see any real privacy issue !