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- Sugar-free Windows, as predicted
- Sugar-free Windows, as predictedreminds me of an Esperanto fanaticYou know Esperanto? The logically designed spoken and written language that, if everyone would adopt it, would vastly improve literacy rates, worldwide communication, and understanding?Unfortunately, the billions of people who populate this world already have languages which, while not as perfect as...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Esperanto
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Murphy's law, or why WinTel wins
- Murphy's law, or why WinTel winsIn the case of ditching Wintel......you just do it. Buy a naked computer (or if you have an old one lying around, use that), take an inventory of the hardware so you know what drivers you need, use the evil FDISK program to obliterate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Esperanto, Wintel, Murphy, open source, English Language
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Microsoft and special consideration
- It's a beautiful day in Geneva. Flowers are in full bloom, young toughs play their boom-boxes quietly so as not to disturb passersby, and 800 year old buildings look like they were built yesterday due to Swiss obsessive attention to repairs. Lake Geneva glistens beneath a cloudless sky, and sailboats...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Esperanto, Lithuania
- Blog posts 2005-11-04
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- The tyranny of the majority
- The tyranny of the majorityHi Paul, too true.What OS you use should be driven by the requirements specification matched to the particular strengths and weaknesses of each potential solution... not dogma.All operating systems have differing capabilities, and until someone produces something akin to HAL-9000 or Star Trek's LCARS no one...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, tyranny
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Linux, XP, and my old PC
- Three weeks ago I reported on my experiences when I tried to install and use Ubuntu Linux. The reaction to that thread was mixed, with a fair number of commenters complaining that the VMWare test bed I chose wasn’t typical of what an average PC user would use. Fair enough....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, notebook
- Blog posts 2006-07-31
- Snap Backup (exe)
- Backup utility for individual computer users who need a simple and convenient way to back up their valuable files. The first time you run Snap Backup, you configure where your data files reside and where to create backup files. Available in Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and...
- Tags: Snap, Backups
- Software downloads 2006-07-18
- Type International Characters (exe)
- Type International Characters foreign text made easyType International Characters is a useful taskbar icon that allows quick access to hard-to-find non-English letters. No more wrestling with unwieldy shortcuts to accents, or impossible to find umlauts and circumflexes. Upgrade your character map. Features Allows you to type non-standard letters with ease....
- Tags: Accent, Character, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2006-06-23
- States struggling to deal with digital documents
- States struggling to deal with digital documentsPortabilityOfficial records should be platform and application independent. Kudos to Massachusetts for being the first and the best of luck to Minnesota. Hope this is just the beginning.Mass HolesThey can't even figure out if they are coming or going never mind set...
- Tags: SECURITY, data format, open standard, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Sudoku Game and Solver (jar)
- With Sudoku Game and Solver you can either choose a difficulty level to start a random game or create your own. If it seems impossible to solve a particular game, there's no reason to go crazy: you can have Sudoku Game and Solver find a possible solution for you. Freeware:...
- Tags: Freeware, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-03-15
- It's Its, its' ... Apostrophic!
- It's Its, its' ... Apostrophic!NamespacesThis is the tie-in for what you are talking about. Namespace is an essential and ignored FINAL piece of the programming/systems integration puzzle. Things like Grids and Autonomics REQUIRE consistent, global Namespaces - but it isn't happening.A Namespace is like a very simple language (it follows...
- Tags: Programming languages, Murph, grammar, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-06
- Latest insights into evolution explain why RSS helps humanize the Web
- Latest insights into evolution explain why RSS helps humanize the WebPolis sizingEvolutionary biology is unnecessary for knowing that there is a maximum size for effective governance.The ancient Greeks and later philosophers considered the problem, and Madison was conscious of it when he was devising a scheme that contributed substantially to...
- Tags: INTERNET, Channel management, Web, RSS, Evolutionary Biology
- Discussion threads 2005-12-27
- George Ou: Is Word open enough for government?
- George Ou thinks Massachusetts is in a no-win situation, in requiring government applications to support OpenDoc. Mandating the adoption of the Oasis Open Document format is kind of like mandating the conversion of all public documents from English to Esperanto. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., e.Republic
- Blog posts 2005-09-08
- Is Word 'open enough for Government work'?
- Is Word 'open enough for Government work'?Mass. is just trying to stick it to MSAnd that's all there is to this. Maybe Mass. is just being a sour-puss about the anti-trust bit.ArthasSimple compromiseIt looks like the MS camp are arguing that MS formats will always be there and be...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, industry standard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, public document, S/W
- Discussion threads 2005-09-07
- Is Word 'open enough for Government work'?
- In David Coursey's latest entry on the Massachusetts Open Document format fight, Coursey points out the futility in Massachusetts' position. Although Coursey agrees in principal with Massachusetts State Government CIO Peter Quinn, he sees this as a no-win situation for Massachusetts but feels that Microsoft should officially open up...
- Tags: David Coursey, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
- The WGIG should embrace English
- The WGIG should embrace EnglishWhich English are you referring to?"I rented the flat for a fortnight". Anyone in North America have a clue what I am talking about?Hadaway, gan on. As they say where I come from.No, we don't know the futureAt present because of the United Kingdom's historical economic...
- Tags: Domain names, Chinese Web site, English Word, pictogram, Chinese Character
- Discussion threads 2005-07-21
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