I saw on Sci-Fi Hi-Fi that Dan Sugalski has written a wonderful series of introductory articles on somewhat advanced subjects. I don’t agree with all he writes, but it’s well worth reading.
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Sometimes, Scott Adams says it best.
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Sometimes, Scott Adams says it best.
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Cringely writes on how greatly Microsoft misunderstands the free software movement. A worthy read.
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Cringely writes on how greatly Microsoft misunderstands the free software movement. A worthy read.
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Oceanwave Consulting tried to get support from Microsoft, but no luck, so turned to the Psychic Friends Network. Their results may surprise you.
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Oceanwave Consulting tried to get support from Microsoft, but no luck, so turned to the Psychic Friends Network. Their results may surprise you.
04 February 2018: updated URL
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I recently happened upon Unix is a Four-Letter Word. It’s a nice introduction to some of the regions of Unix most useful to the new user. Although I’d recommend emacs over vi any day.
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I recently happened upon Unix is a Four-Letter Word. It’s a nice introduction to some of the regions of Unix most useful to the new user. Although I’d recommend emacs over vi any day.
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Scott Granneman of Security Focus has an article in the Reg arguing that Windows is inherently insecure, and that if some Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac OS) took over the desktop and server markets, we’d not see the sorts of vulnerabilities and worms so prevalent with Windows, Internet Information Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer &c.
I’m not quite certain. It seems to me that as long as there are those who wish to use computers without knowledge, there will be broken programs which cater to their supposed needs — and that so long as these programs exist, there will be problems.
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Scott Granneman of Security Focus has an article in the Reg arguing that Windows is inherently insecure, and that if some Unix (e.g. Linux or Mac OS) took over the desktop and server markets, we’d not see the sorts of vulnerabilities and worms so prevalent with Windows, Internet Information Server, Outlook, Internet Explorer &c.
I’m not quite certain. It seems to me that as long as there are those who wish to use computers without knowledge, there will be broken programs which cater to their supposed needs — and that so long as these programs exist, there will be problems.
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JWZ writes that he’s confused by the promotion of CSS by the W3C et al.; I don’t believe that he quite understands the issue — or if he does, he professes to be ignorant in order to win some rhetorical point.
He seems to be annoyed that so many folks hated the presentation-oriented markup which Netscape introduced. He ignores the fact that structural markup leads to Good Things: automated indexing; improved searching; automatic transformation of presentation while leaving content unchanged, reading by the disabled (whether physically or technologically, e.
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