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My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. Now that I'm retired I still use GNU/Linux on every computer in my home except the smartphones which run Android/Linux.Lately, I've been giving lots of thought to the world I inherited and which I will leave to my descendants. I'm planting grass, trees, flowers and vegetables in my large lot and I've ordered a Solo EV. I plan to charge my Solo by means of a tracking solar array. Life is good if you have a purpose. I do.
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Daily Archives: August 25, 2011
Snipers in Libya
Out of all the chaos of the grim reality that is the fight for freedom in Libya, there is a bit of humour. The word “sniper” occurs repeatedly in news reports and everyone’s talking about “snipers” but what they are … Continue reading
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Troll v RedHat
This is a strange one. A patent troll has a patent so diffuse that it is almost meaningless and is suing RedHat over it: “Network Distributed Caches (“NDCs”) (50) permit accessing a named dataset stored at an NDC server terminator … Continue reading
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Quitting With No Notice
Apple may or may not change without Steve. Assuming he was OK with suing the world instead of innovating, I won’t miss him. If I were his employer, I would not mind him quitting with no notice. I would say, … Continue reading
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“8” Makes Vista Look Good
In the striptease to “8” M$ lets out that they will create graphs to show how downloads are going. Imagine that. Instead of a few words and numbers they are going to create a data-structure for every transfer and update … Continue reading
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Tragedy of Shakespearian Proportions in IT
Shakespeare loved to tell tales of big egos brought low by delusions of grandeur. There are several such stories playing out in IT these days: Oracle v Google Apple v World Acer v Acer The latter is interesting. Acer was … Continue reading
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