Industry analysts have to be the biggest group of clowns around. I wonder how they come up with their “analysis”. Certainly it doesn’t involve thinking or actually talking to people who do any thinking. Here’s a choice quote from a CNet article on Mozilla 1.1:
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blockquote> “If you have a religious aversion to Microsoft [...]
This weekend, my project is installing Gentoo Linux on my laptop. A reader mentioned that Gentoo was one of the distributions that was more KDE-friendly than Red Hat (which we use for just about everything at work), and I decided to go great guns and just install it. Gentoo is not for the faint [...]
Ever since I started watching Simon Cowell, the abrasive British judge on American Idol, I’ve been tempted to start a lot more sentences with the word “look”.
A spokesperson for Thomson says that the licensing terms for Thomson’s MP3 patents haven’t changed.
Last night I read an entry in Eugene Volokh’s blog which made me sit down and think. It’s short, and here’s the meat of it:
“LET’S NOT ATTACK OUR SELF-ANNOUNCED ENEMIES NOW; IF NEED BE, WE CAN ATTACK THEM LATER, WHEN THEY HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.” On thinking more about the Iraq debate, I realized that the [...]
baseballreference.com has the coolest idea yet for raising money to support the site. If you’ve never visited the site, it provides career statistics for (as far as I know) every player in major league history, among other things. They’re allowing people to sponsor individual pages on the site — you can think of [...]
Dave Hyatt smacks down his former bosses at Netscape for ignoring the obvious:
Plenty of other engineers at Netscape (as well as managers) complained about these problems and fought with those higher up to correct these problems. We lost every battle. The simple truth is that the people in charge of running the Netscape browser are [...]
I’d consider doing all my work in Linux if I could get my Linux desktop to look like this. But I don’t know how to get there. I think the problem is that Cygwin is a crutch. If Cygwin didn’t make Windows so much less unpleasant, I would probably be inspired [...]
Is all censorware inherently evil? Are there any enlightened companies that make censorware with open lists of sites and keywords that they block (for home use)? I have a friend who just got a broadband connection and wants to prevent her kids from mistakenly surfing to obvious pr0n sites (no, dicks.com does not [...]
Everybody knows that the browser war is over, right? Well it’s still going hot and heavy here at rc3.org. Yesterday, there were more hits from Mozilla (not all of Netscape’s browsers, just Mozilla) than there were from Internet Explorer. That’s pretty impressive, even when you count in the fact that my [...]