About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux. If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as “The Year of the Linux Desktop,” although such a thing clearly hasn’t happened yet. Now, two [...]
You may recall that I’ve been to Cleveland before (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); this year, I was there once again, for the same reason, namely the annual CampusEAI conference.
Our addition to the program this year was relatively recent occurrence, and so this conference came as a bit of a surprise, wedged [...]
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№40
Title: The Age of Spiritual Machines [$]
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Pages: 400
Part of the problem with books making predictions about the future is they only have two markets: (1), people who want to read predictions about the future, and (2) [...]
Reading an 8-year thread of responses to a longstanding Gecko bug makes for interesting reading.
You can list at least four different ways to create italicized text on a web page, as well as the semantic importance of each
You laugh at the joke about the pluperfect subjunctive scrod.
You like xkcd; even worse: you understand [...]
Eh. It’s good, I suppose, and I’m sure its much-vaunted performance is there, but this is very much a service pack dealing with O/S guts, and not a massive feature pack a la SP2. I can’t immediately tell any difference.
In other news, Hardy Heron is released! And its software is already out [...]
I write today safely back in the Midwest after spending about 5 days in Anaheim, California (for which see my previous post). My purpose in California was the annual Sungard Summit, a very large gathering of customers of Sungard Higher Education, mostly Banner users. It’s a markedly different kind of conference than the [...]
I’ll be at the Sungard Summit in sunny Anaheim from Saturday, 12 April through Wednesday, 16 April.
Posting might be light.
Great. Now expect the U.S. to be five years behind Sweden and Japan and most of the the other established countries in the world.
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№24
Title: The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick [$]
Author: Jonathan Littman
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 1997
Pages: 416
As someone who spends a lot of time reading computer and security news, I’m no stranger to Kevin Metnick. I did an entire paper [...]
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