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"Back that truck up"

The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...

Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Wikiscanner reveals Apple's Wikipedia edits

Wikiscanner reveals Apple's Wikipedia editsM$ must be held accountable for spreading FUD!"Computers in Microsoft's IP range in turn edit Apple entries, adding negative comments about their rival."Somebody has to put the foot in the door and sue the M$ mobsters! What is Apple waiting for?...They have the money to fight...

Tags: Wiki, Linux, Revisionism, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WikiScanner, Wikipedia, Linux Geek

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

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Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux

Pravda, Sutor, and IBM LinuxWrong!At it again are we?Paul get your facts straight before you try to be the same failure as that fraud.Yes the U2 crashed because it used a jet engine who was held together by good intentions and bailing wire.But regarding Linux, you are still wrong. Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Linux, IBM Corp., Unix, duck, IBM Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-09

PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac Clones

PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac ClonesHistorical revisionismApple killed the clone market because it d@mn near killed Apple as a business. Or don't you remember that Jobs was brought back on to save the company from bankruptcy?This stupid old Apple should become an OS vendor argument raises it's...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OSx86, Apple Inc., PC Industry Episode II, hardware, EFI emulator, PC, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

I can live without gold, buy less gasoline, but NO salmon!

I can live without gold, buy less gasoline, but NO salmon!...Answer is simple Harry... 1. We have over fished many of the salmon populations.2. Due to although this year seems to be a turn around several dry seasons many salmon spawning sites were in accessible to the salmon during their...

Tags: Salmon, river, salmon, habitat

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Apple walks on water and WiMax Mobile

Apple walks on water and WiMax MobileDongleAs I Cringley observes in the [url=http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080111_003899.html]End Game[/url] article, Apple hardware is a dongle.You can only run their software applications on their hardware, with only a few exceptions.They need to diversify because with recent changes to expanded drm-free music availability (e.g, SONY to sell...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., WiMAX, WiMax Mobile, mobile, IPHONE IS

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits

CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia editsI'm wondering where M$ edits track to?willing to take a bet?I'm not paying these guys to edit wikipediaAs a taxpayer, I think they need to concentrate on their jobs.So what??Those are the people I'd expect to actually know a bit more about those topics....

Tags: computer, FBI, Wikipedia, Wiki, harassment, government employee, CIA

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Groklaw vs. the cookie jar

Arrrrg! April 1st is on a Sunday - and April fools jokes just arent funny if read first on April 2nd, so Im forced to put off the first annual chutzpah in IT advertising awards until Hanukkah. Meanwhile InformationWeek released a howler last...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, cookie, Groklaw, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., Maureen OGara

Blog posts 2007-03-26

Get facts, not spin, about Vista's new license

Update 2-Nov: In response to complaints from enthusiasts, Microsoft has revised the terms of its license agreement. For more details, see "Microsoft changes Vista license terms."  Memo to Paul Thurrott: If you're going to write an article entitled "Windows Vista Licensing Changes: Everything you've read is wrong", it helps to get your facts...

Tags: Paul, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Licensing

Blog posts 2006-10-16

Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in Citizendium

Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in CitizendiumWiki elevates opinion to "truth"Wikipedia was created with the noblest of intentions: give people free access to real knowledge. What it failed to take into account, however, was that there is a world of difference between "knowledge" and "opinion," and that opinions...

Tags: Web 2.0, editorial staff, Web, Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2006-09-17

IE7 not CSS compliant - argh, here we go again!

IE7 not CSS compliant - argh, here we go again!Pay attention[i]Tony Chor [...] stated that standards was a high on the agenda for IE7 along with things like security. He said that Microsoft will support "not only official standards, but defacto standards".[/i]And MSHTML is [u]the[/u] [i]de facto[/i] standard. You...

Tags: Quality, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, standards, XFORMS, CSS

Discussion threads 2006-08-07

April hearing for Microsoft appeal of EU ruling

April hearing for Microsoft appeal of EU rulingstop waisting time EUGo for the kill stop waisting time M$ wil never obey anyways.....EU should upgrade the fine to 500 million a day just for the fun of it.send a clear message to any corporation obey or face the gutter period toxicfreakMessage...

Tags: Construction, Microsoft Corp., WW1

Discussion threads 2006-01-25