Debating about operating systems

I was part of a interesting debate about operating systems and a lot of interesting points were made.  Like for example I use a mix of Linux and bsd and yes Solaris as well.  All three based around the original Unix and all three are a great deal more stable then a lot of production operating systems, but the point I'm trying to make being is we've got freedom of speech and choice, which grated Unix or a Unix like environment have a lot of superiority over a lot of operating systems, but still for whatever reason you like a particular purpose or reason; you still have the right to choose which operating system.....   enjoy

Music and computers

I know a lot of musicians, who are also tech savvy and would like to record guitar (I mostly know guitarist) to there a computer.  An I found a great way to do that.  http://www.musicrepo.com/record-guitar-on-computer and I found this site, where all you need to do is get a guitar to computer adapter.  An the hardware, but with all the available software you can use, you're off and running. 

All about hard drives

An something I would like to talk about in this post, like the title says all about hard drives.  First I'd like to start off with is what is a hard drive?  A hard drive is basically a box that keeps all your information in your computer, long term permanent storage.  Hard drives fall under two categories, classic hard drives and solid state drives.  Classic hard drives are mechanical which means they've got moving parts, an speeds and sizes vary.  Like for example, some can put information on it at 6 gigs a second,  while others have rates at around 180 gigs a second in classic hard drives.  Also in classic hard drives some are as 500 gigabytes and some are as big as 6 terabytes (6000 gigabytes).  Now onto solid state drives, they're hard drives with no moving parts with means that they're faster and with rates anywhere from 300 to 500 gigabytes a second.  Which both solid state drives and classic hard drives both have the pros and cons, one is space classic hard drives have more space (the average is around 6 terabytes), but aren't and don't wear out as quickly;  but solid state drives are faster and average around 2 terabytes of space.  Any more questions please feel free to ask!

Open source vs proprietary

An as I was thinking about what to post o n my tech blog', a dear friend suggested I explain the difference between open source and proprietary (thanks Travis).  To start off proprietary and open source are copyright protected,  but with open source a lot of the intellectual property rights have been sacrificed,  because in general we just want to get the software to work; by letting everyone use the software and contribute fixes.   An as well as other ways to help, like in distributing the software and with that you've also got freedom of choice of who and where you get that help.   Which is why tech support is so much better,  but with proprietary software you're at the mercy of one company which is why tech support is usually so bad.  Also to talk about games, since most people who use windows to play games, but steam, the gaming company, it's similar to gamefly, but they recently opened up their software to play on Linux operating systems and even went as far as developing a complete operating system, that just plays games.  The name of the operating system is called steamos, not big shock right (haha)?  But whether you use a proprietary operating system like windows or Mac, or open source operating system like Linux or BSD,  but it's all about freedom of choice.  

Lists of a few proprietary operating systems and open source:  
Linux Mint
Ubuntu
Pc bsd
Solaris
Microsoft windows
Apple Macintosh

Suggestions needed for topics

Well I'm asking anybody who reads this for suggestions or questions that you may have.  Because I want this blog to be community driven and to help people that may have any questions.  Thank you.....