Saturday, December 30, 2006

Simple Honesty

I read this today and it resonated with me, so here it is:

"Raise a glass today for simple honesty, and never forget those who decline to offer it when it is most needed."

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Give me some of that!

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
As a user, there is simply no escape.  Whether you use Windows Vista, Windows
XP, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris (on x86), or almost any other
OS, Windows content protection will make your hardware more expensive, less
reliable, more difficult to program for, more difficult to support, more
vulnerable to hostile code, and with more compatibility problems.