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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language I’ve been doing software development for twenty-five years as a hobby, and the last nine commercially as …
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Our copy of the last Harry Potter book arrived early Saturday morning, and GoddessJ devoured it like a starving woman at an all-you-can-eat banquet. I got it late that evening, and read it at a much more leisurely pace, finishing it Monday evening. I find it hard to believe, but Rowling actually managed to live …
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As mentioned before, there’s one Windows program that I haven’t been able to find a Linux-based replacement for: dogMelon’s Note Studio. This morning I decided to break out a couple of the things I use it for, to see if I could find good replacements for those pieces only.
A leak? You call what’s going on here a leak? Last time we had leak like like this, Noah built himself a boat! — Wells (Wilford Brimley), ‘Absence of Malice’ Our copy of the new Harry Potter novel (delivered early this morning from Amazon) is presently being devoured by GoddessJ, and it doesn’t look like …
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Microsoft has apparently ticked off a lot of people in their attempt to force everyone to switch to Vista, besides me.
There’s a neat article in National Geographic on how “swarm theory” can be used to solve real-world problems. The short Boing Boing excerpt is worth a read if you’re at all interested in software development or intelligence research.
The CNET review was prompted by Dell’s inclusion of Ubuntu on some of it’s systems. It isn’t entirely complimentary — it complains about missing wireless and webcam drivers, and that the timekeeping wasn’t accurate, but I haven’t seen any of those problems myself. It also complains that the system isn’t always able to recover from …
My Linux-using friend tosses around phrases like “free as in beer” or “free as in speech” a lot. He’s tried to explain what they mean several times, but I seem to have some kind of mental block about them because I could never figure out what he was talking about… talk is cheap, and beer …
Do you remember the major stink a while back over the DRM-crippled Sony CDs? Apparently Sony has decided to try to get some of their money back from the company that sold them the spyware packages. Frankly, I think they deserve each other.