The Samsung 2342bwx – First Thoughts
So after a very brief dalliance with HP’s monstrous w2408h, which had the worst backlight bleed I have ever seen in any monitor, I came across the 2343bwx at my local microcenter.
299.00 for a 16:9 monitor with a 2048 x 1152 monitor with some fantastic specs seemed like too good a deal to pass up, and as it turns out, it is.
There aren’t any official reviews online yet for this monitor, so I’d throw out some of my initial impressions.
It’s been several weeks now since we’ve all been cozying up with our New Xbox Experience, and now that I’ve explored the ins and outs of the update (and offered both my 





After installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a whim and based on my love for fearless goats, I wrote up some of my initial impressions to sound off with Dragonwyntir. Among the things I liked a lot, the networking has been improved, the install is pain free, driver management (at least on my m1330 laptop) was smooth and automatic, and the hot-swappable user accounts made diving into “root” a lot easier.