Longhorn already available in Malaysia
In a stunning display of optimism and hopefulness (ok, perhaps it’s just greed) software pirates are already selling Longhorn in Malaysia:
Pirated versions of Microsoft’s next generation computer operating system are on sale in Malaysia, more than a year before the official release date.
The software, codenamed Longhorn, is on sale in Johor Baru, a city [...]
OS X vs. FreeBSD
Paul Bissex has done an awesome job examining the usability and feature-set of FreeBSD/KDE from the perspective of a Darwin/OS X user in FreeBSD, KDE and Me:
One day after a particularly inopportune freeze [of his Titanium PowerBook - ed.], I closed the PowerBook, put it aside, and dragged the FreeBSD box over to my desk. [...]
Drama in the Scottish whiskey industry
Mess with the best, you make people very, very upset. In this case it’s the Scottish whiskey industry and they’re worried that their thus-far unimpugnable reputation may come under attack:
A decision by drinks giant Diageo to change the composition of the famous Cardhu malt has caused waves of protest around the world.
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As a result of [...]