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…
Archive for the tag 'Windows'
Apr 29 2008
Windows XP SP3
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…
Apr 04 2008
Fatuous criticisms of Linux
I love Jeff Atwood’s blog, and can even accept that he’s drank of the Microsoft Kool-Aid seemingly for both desktop and server because he’s a great writer and a great programmer.
But I admit to being troubled by his recent post.…
Mar 25 2008
OpenOffice 2.4.0
After a number of delays, OpenOffice 2.4.0 has been officially released. Get it here. Check the mirrors for your own OS and localization. OpenOffice 2.4.0 has not quite been released yet. Some major new features include OpenGL transitions for Impress, some major charting improvements…
Mar 10 2008
ApexDC++ 1.0.1
After a long string of betas, ApexDC++ (an DC++ client based on StrongDC++), has finally reached a stable release with v1.0.1. See here.
Mar 04 2008
ImgBurn 2.4.0.0
ImgBurn, a popular disc image burner, has seen a major version change. Most important in this release is support for burning audio formats—anything for which it can find a compatible DirectShow filter. See the rest of the changes (including a…
Feb 15 2008
Size curves for office file formats
Just a few days ago, I compared the relative sizes of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) and OASIS’s OpenDocument format (ODF). I noticed that while OOXML was smaller for smaller amounts of text, ODF was smaller for larger documents. I…
Jan 19 2008
Common compression and corpuses
Every so often, I dink around with benchmarking common lossless compressors. One of the best sites for it is, I think, Werner Bergman’s Maximum Compression, which is a rather comprehensive running benchmark of just about every lossless compression benchmark under…