Peter Bright makes a cogent argument that the Web now belongs to Google — and that should worry us all. I strongly encourage my friends & readers to install Firefox on their computers and their phones (and to use Android, because Firefox on iOS is just a reskinned Safari, due to Apple’s draconian platform policies).
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A fellow is going to prison for 15 months for selling bit-for-bit
identical copies of software Microsoft gave away for free. TechCrunch
has an excellent has the details. It just doesn’t sound right to
me to value something which is free at $25/copy.
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Gunnar Ritter, maintainer of the commonly-used mailx program, explains why it’s not available on Windows. It’s an interesting tale of how the kluges deep within that semi-operating psuedo-system mean that even in 2010 design decisions made in the Seventies afflict Windows.
They afflict Unix too, of course, but generally our design mistakes were smarter than Windows’s design mistakes. Even in error we’re better.
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Gunnar Ritter, maintainer of the commonly-used mailx program, explains why it’s not available on Windows. It’s an interesting tale of how the kluges deep within that semi-operating psuedo-system mean that even in 2010 design decisions made in the Seventies afflict Windows.
They afflict Unix too, of course, but generally our design mistakes were smarter than Windows’s design mistakes. Even in error we’re better.
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You just can’t ask for a better headline than this. It looks like the London Stock Exchange, having lost a packet due to using Microsoft and Accenture technology, has decided to call the whole thing off. No word yet on what the replacement will be, although Linux is one option.
Not that Linux — or even Unix — is necessarily the best option. There are even better OSes out there, for example any mainframe OS.
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You just can’t ask for a better headline than this. It looks like the London Stock Exchange, having lost a packet due to using Microsoft and Accenture technology, has decided to call the whole thing off. No word yet on what the replacement will be, although Linux is one option.
Not that Linux — or even Unix — is necessarily the best option. There are even better OSes out there, for example any mainframe OS.
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Well, that title is a bit alarmist, but it’s true: Excel corrupts gene names and Riken identifiers in spreadsheets. I have to ask: if you’re doing anything important, why are you using Microsoft software to do it?
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Well, that title is a bit alarmist, but it’s true: Excel corrupts gene names and Riken identifiers in spreadsheets. I have to ask: if you’re doing anything important, why are you using Microsoft software to do it?
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We all know that Windows Vista breaks a lot of things. What’s surprising is that it breaks Windows software so badly that running that same software under Linux and Wine (a free Windows implementation) can be a better choice. Here’s a list of games which run better under Linux+Wine than under Vista. Microsoft sure have some egg on their face with this one.
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We all know that Windows Vista breaks a lot of things. What’s surprising is that it breaks Windows software so badly that running that same software under Linux and Wine (a free Windows implementation) can be a better choice. Here’s a list of games which run better under Linux+Wine than under Vista. Microsoft sure have some egg on their face with this one.
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A former Windows user details his experiences after using Ubuntu Linux for some time. His verdict? ‘After Ubuntu, Windows looks increasingly bad, increasingly archaic. increasingly unfriendly.’
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A former Windows user details his experiences after using Ubuntu Linux for some time. His verdict? ‘After Ubuntu, Windows looks increasingly bad, increasingly archaic. increasingly unfriendly.’
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