No. I’m not talking about windoze evolution (‘innovation’, they keep calling it); which normally takes place in a dark alley, with the swift application of a blackjack to the back of the head of the owner of a truly imaginative software project–by Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer or Jim Alchin. That’s nothing new and noteworthy, because we’ve been watching microsoft cheat and steal to get ’software for nothing’ for decades. (more…)
I’d like to point you to a couple of URIs that form the background for the thoughts to follow:
Firstly, here’s a fun video from Novell, Inc. which is a bit of a departure from the image that most of may have of the Novell-types: stodgey.
Secondly, here’s a (more…)
Come the ides-less-four in the month of Caesar, microsoft will (according to their stated plans) resolutely discontinue public support for windoze 98, 98se and win me. Security updates, patches, repairs for bad patches, and anything else that might have come down the windoze update pike will also be a thing of the past–for the little good it ever did anybody. (more…)
I’ve had a particular email addy for almost a year, now. I have never had a single piece of SPAM routed through this specific email address since I set it up…until this morning. (more…)
There just hasn’t been much time to check-in here, because life has that nasty tendency to just march along, demanding 100% of your attention.
The phone lines are still giving me fits, but those are reasonable minimum due to a work-around that I have in place; so it’s a back-burner thing right now.
In shoving everything over to the left side of my desk–so to speak–I have noticed a few things of the interim that demand some sort of comment from me. The fact is that there are so many of them that it’s time to filter some of them out and go for the one on the top of the pile. (more…)
January isn’t even half-over; yet these past few days mark the very first time I’ve had _anybody_ deep-link to any resource on any web site I’ve had–EVER. (more…)