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- Dvorak's cunning plan to kill Linux
- Dvorak's cunning plan to kill LinuxIt's John C. Dvorak - Need Anyone Say More? ;)I can never decide whether Dvorak, the Harlan Ellison of Hi-Tech, irritates the living daylights out of me...or makes me laugh my butt off.Usually both....
- Tags: UNIX, Dvorak, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- RIM announces BlackBerry platform enhancements
- RIM announces BlackBerry platform enhancementsDvorak is right, press release does not equal news.How does this pass as a story? It is a press release and beyond that, it is a press release which credits a blog for finding it first. Where is the value?The author should ask himself, am I...
- Tags: Blogging, Dvorak, RIM BlackBerry, mobile new, BlackBerry Platform, blog, mobile, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- Hell froze over; Dvorak using a Mac
- Hell froze over; Dvorak using a MacAnd now we know the rest of the story...as to why John gets no SPAM. :)And now that Dvorak is using a Mac the Mac Fanbois will......hold him up as the poster child of truth instead of the poster child of FUD.Favorite...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Dvorak, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-07-27
- Hell froze over; Dvorak using a Mac
- The perennial curmudgeon John C. Dvorak may be the ultimate switcher of all time. That's right, Dvorak is using a Mac. In a recent column for PC magazine Me and My Mac Dvorak says "That's right. I'm using a Mac, and,...
- Tags: Opinion, Humor
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Do you QWERTY or Dvorak?
- Do you QWERTY or Dvorak?QWERTY - 75 wpmI've been QWERTYing since junior high school typing class (1976). After years of doing data entry, followed by many jobs involving keyboarding, including being a programmer for 10 years, I feel safe in stating that I've overcome ANY alleged inefficiencies of the...
- Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Dvorak, QWERTY
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- Do you QWERTY or Dvorak?
- How many of you have abandoned the old-school and inefficient QWERTY keyboard layout and instead use the supposedly more efficient Dvorak alternative?I'm guessing that given the high number of alpha-geeks that read ZDNet that opinions on keyboard layouts will be split. Some of you will prefer the traditional QWERTY layout because it...
- Tags: Thoughts, Poll of the Day
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Dvorak: Web 2.0, Web 1.0, open source irrelevant to pols
- All the recent hype about Democrats being more adept than Republicans at utilizing the Internet to further their cause and rally the masses, has PC Magazine blogger John C. Dvorak in a tizzy.No voter, politician or journalist comes out looking highly educated when it comes to the Internet, he says....
- Tags: Elections
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Apple could be onto a good thing with the iPhone
- Apple could be onto a good thing with the iPhoneCover your eyes......because you are not going to like what you see.[url=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/apple-should-pull-plug-iphone/story.aspx?guid=%7B3289E5E2-E67C-4395-8A8E-B94C1B480D4A%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo]FYI[/url];)10 Ways the Nokia N800 is Better[url=http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2007/10-ways-the-nokia-n800-is-better-than-apples-iphone/]FYI, I own one[/url];)Nice linkHe is saying what I've said all along: the success of the iPod in an immature market where Apple was...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, cell phone market, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Dvorak, mobile-phone market, phone, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- There goes Dvorak again-telling Apple to forget the iPhone
- Writing in Marketwatch yesterday, columnist John Dvorak cites several reasons why Apple should reconsider putting out the iPhone.In fact, he makes his case that Apple should just can the whole project- which will see iPhone be released in June.John makes his argument on the basis that theres just too...
- Tags: General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Dvorak: IE is a dead albatross
- Dvorak: IE is a dead albatrossDepends......on if it's just IE that's removed, or the entire underlying rendering engine. That engine is used by other aspects of Windows, so I don't see how MS could remove that functionality. And it's that functionality, not IE, that causes all of the problems. Likewise...
- Tags: Web browsers, Nothing, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Dvorak, Web browser, IE IS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Dvorak: IE is a dead albatross
- Every once in a while, John Dvorak hits one out of the park when he posts a rant that actually gets me thinking seriously. In his latest jab at Microsoft, he declares that the best thing the company could do would be to drop Internet explorer like a hot tuber....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, John Dvorak
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- 3D Bunnies and Jellybeans (exe)
- Bunnies and Jelly Beans float among bunny shaped moving clouds above a field of flowers. Dvorak's Humoresque plays in background. A charming gift for your sweetheart for Easter. Want a soothing nighttime scene? Just set the time of day to nighttime and a dark shadowy blue hue is cast on...
- Tags: 3D, Scene, Dvorak
- Software downloads 2006-04-12
- Complaining about the Creative Commons
- Complaining about the Creative CommonsDvorak is right.,, It's a complete waste.Just another "fad" that will die quickly and without fan fair.Dvorak strikes againDvorak is a very entertaining writer. His barbs always have struck me a funny, but not particularly insightful. His take on the Creative Commons effort is an example...
- Tags: Podcasts, Operating systems, Dvorak, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2005-07-21
- Could Dvorak be right, and the Mac move hurt Linux?
- Could Dvorak be right, and the Mac move hurt Linux?Loud cheering in this section of the stands..."But look people. The Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD. Windows offers a lot of services for Unix. In a way we’re all Linux now, and all that’s left to argue about are...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Dvorak, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-08
- Dvorak's cunning plan
- Dvorak's cunning planSounds like OS XTake a *NIX OpenBSD and put a proprietary windowing system on top. Its been done already!He shoulda called it "Windex"The marketing line would be something like "cleans your Windows and leaves them sparkling!" No wait, that's been done...The problem with Dvorak's "solution"Dvorak speaks in the...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Dvorak, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-02-23
- Dvorak Channels Markoff
- I always feel slightly stupid when I get sucked into a Dvorak ping pong match. But it's just too much fun: Dvorak is the master of teasing just enough across the line between irascible and just plain wrong to draw a counter-attack. Today's exercise in futility concerns one of his...
- Tags: Blogging, RSS, Dvorak, blog, John D., John M., Markoff
- Blog posts 2005-01-04
Additional Resources
- GS Typing Tutor (exe)
- A powerful educational software which will help you to learn touch typing or develop your typing speed through an amusing, easy, and effective way. Now, it supports 24 keyboard layouts (including US, UK, Dvorak and so on) and 5 typing games. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Grass Software, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-09-11
- Where the Linux laptops live
- Where the Linux laptops liveMore to the point, what % of Amazon's laptop sales are linux machines?NTShould be titled: 1/3 of amazon.com laptops are available with linuxThe Asus eee (EeE, eEE, Eee, whatever) machines have a choice of windows xp or linux so simply citing a sale of an eee...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux laptop, Dana, Linux-version, Linux, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Get kids to touch type!
- Get kids to touch type!Two finger typing works.After years of it, one can attain a good speed. So long as the lights are not turned out. We are now in the interim before speech software is ready to replace the keyboard for many purposes. Though transcribing the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, rtf, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Apple: Shut down MobileMe immediately
- Apple: Shut down MobileMe immediatelyWhat about .Mac?I'd have been happy with them waiting to release it until it was perfect, but in it's current state it's exactly like .Mac with a flashier interface. I don't see how it's really a detriment to keep it going. MobileMe's sync actually...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mme, Apple Inc., Shut-down MobileMe, MobileMe, Shut-Down, job, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
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