The Holidays

The Holiday Season

'Tis the season... I'm wondering how to get my daughter a Wii for Christmas. I don't want to pay ebay prices for it like I had to for the Furby. I hope the supply-chains and manufacturing come together and make plenty of them for the buying public. I understand that Sony is having some difficulty in getting the Blu-ray LED's and it's causing a back-up of production of their PS3's. Oh well, this could be the straw that broke the camels' back. The other major players might just jump the Blu-ray ship in favor of the HD DVD format and we'll have betamax vs. VHS all over again.

What operating system do you use?

I'd rather get my daughter a Wii before Christmas rather than after. How about it Nintendo?

On a side note...

Not to try to troll or incite a riot but I only run about 4 or 5 different operating systems. I have XP home, ubuntu 6.10 and mepis 6.0 at home. At work my computers use dsl 3.0, solaris 2.6, mepis 6.0, red hat 3.2 and XP home. I just like a variety since I'm a programmer analyst. The sun box [spark server 5] was given to me as a gift by my son. I just wonder what others are running and how they like their respective platforms. I can do all I want with ease with any of them. The spark 5 is a little slow at graphics but it's only a 110mhz risc system and is really an antique.

I suppose I could as well claim to have apple dos 3.3 for my apple ][ c, and whatever my comodore 128 and 64 use (I have both that work) but I don't think my timex-sinclair ZX has any operating system, just a bios. I'm sure that my TI-89 calculator with it's motorola 68000 processor will claim to have an operating system, it's even graphical! I wonder what it's called? Maybe I can hack in a copy of linux? ;-)