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Mac users bury heads again
Anyone who knows me knows I love the Mac. Hell, I own six of them. So it pains me when the truly rabid Mac fanatics knee-jerkingly attack anyone who claims the Mac is anything but the second coming of absolute technological perfection. And it’s happening again in response to Symantec’s assertion that the Mac’s growing [...]
Got Mono? Good times.
OnDotNet.com is running a great new interview with Miguel de Icaza on the state of Mono: Miguel de Icaza Explains How to “Get” Mono.
Since OpenCola (holy crap, we have a Wikipedia page!) I haven’t been hanging around many Linux geeks in person so I don’t really have a feel for how quickly or eagerly Mono’s [...]
.Net compile-time error
I think I’d like to see .Net catch this error at compile-time:
if ( myBool = true )
{
}
Unless someone can tell me why you’d ever intentionally want to do that?
Jay Pinkerton: Unnecessary Movie Sequels
Unnecessary Movie Sequels!
Windows is such a joker
Here’s something new I learned about Windows today that made me laugh in a “I’d smash this machine if I could” sort of way:
Take Folder A. Put a file in it.
Right click on the file and Copy it.
Step up the directory tree to the folder’s parent.
Right-click on the folder and Delete it.
Try to paste the [...]
How Lisa Came to Isreal - Part 6 posted
Lisa has posted part 6 of How Lisa Came to Isreal, one of the most compelling reads on the web right now. Click on over and start at part 1.
Notably quotable
The latest issue of Cryptogram further explores the breaking of SHA-1. I love this line from it:
Additionally, algorithms from the NSA are considered a sort of alien technology: they come from a superior race with no explanations.
Microsoft gets Groove
It seems that Microsoft is acquiring Groove, the groupware startup founded by Ray Ozzie, creator of Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes was (is?) an insanely popular application and really the only enterprise scale option in that field. Despite that people seem to hate it (and apparently not without cause; witness Damien Katz’s tale of rewriting the Formula [...]
Lloyd Axworthy’s open letter to the US
Ex-finance minister Lloyd Axworthy has written an excellent open letter to Condoleezza Rice succinctly explaining just how Canadians view Canadian-US relations and just why what America perceives as “anti-American” sentiment is in fact not anti-American sentiment but rather simply disgreements with the policies and practices of the current administration.
This is an important distinction that seems [...]