Monthly Archives: August 2003

Just found this sort of report written by Josh Ledgard, Microsoft employee who attended LinuxWorld. It’s fun to read, and it illustrates some problems I have with the “open source community”.

What’s the Deal with J2EE 1.4? “Finally someone said it!” he exclaims. “I couldn’t agree more. I’m an instructor specializing in taking ‘legacy’ programmers (which now includes PowerBuilder and Visual Basic) and retraining them in Java 2EE. The universal complaint is, why it is so difficult to accomplish even the most modest business tasks withContinue reading “What”

David Chappell writes about the economic value of Linux: “Who benefits from the rise of Linux? When I think of the Free Software Foundation-inspired work on the GNU libraries or of Linus Torvalds himself devoting his time to creating this new system, I doubt the goal was to increase the wealth of shareholders in largeContinue reading “The Economic Value of Linux”

VariousTim’s RantsLambda the UltimateSam Rubydive into markGlenn Vanderburg: Weblog: /Software/LanguagesJeremy Allaire’s RadioStronglyTypediunknown.com — John Lam’s Software Development WeblogMaking it stick.Jeffs Blog — daily musings, girl of the week, and morewow . . . joseph’s weblog JavaJames Gosling: on the Java road… .NETFrans Bouma’s blogDon Box’s SpoutletC# Stuff.Net notesEmitterSam Gentile’s BlogDrew’s BlogSells Brothers — Chris’s Home on the WebBrad AbramsRob Howard’s Blog

I wanted to put up a list of blogs I read so I exported my bookmarks from Mozilla. This exports them to HTML format with a lot of junk in the <a href=”…” lots of junk here> tags. I wanted to edit this out in EditPlus, but then I thought of the find command inContinue reading “OMG I just used chose Vim over EditPlus”

God, that’s breaking news. I had to post this: I’ve learned three things from this performance: Madonna can’t sing live Christina’s hair is now painted black, which looks bad on her If Britney dolls don’t exist yet, I see an opportunity here

I just installed Mozilla 1.5b and I noticed <hr/>’s finally appear as they do in IE, the lines between the boards at KeyTopic finally have a 1px width :)

The Open Source Foundation has put online several documents leaked from Microsoft evaluating Linux and other open source software as competitors. However “Eric S. Raymond” put his comments all over it, I started reading the document (and in particular the comments by mr Raymond, written in green) but stopped halfway. It’s disgusting, this guy reallyContinue reading “Open Source”

PNNL: “The PNNL system is the world’s fastest supercomputer based on the Linux operating system and is the largest machine ever built using Intel’s 64-bit architecture. PNNL’s supercomputer draws its speed and computing power from nearly 2,000 next-generation Intel® Itanium®-2 processors code-named “Madison,” running on industry-standard HP Integrity servers. Linking the Intel Itanium2 chips isContinue reading “This is a nice home PC”

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