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Vermyndax on March 5th, 2008

Here’s a late night pondering for you as I traipse off to bed. Ask yourself: does the subject matter of a blog control what browser share you’re likely to experience on your site? Given the stats that I’m getting, I can say (without much of a doubt) that yes, that’s true… # #reqs #pages browser [...]

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Vermyndax on March 4th, 2008

I meant to post about this over the weekend, but… well, I forgot. I didn’t see much chatter about this over the leap day, but here it is. On a system that uses Postfix 2.2.9 on SLES 10, Postfix started acting quite wonky on February 29th, 2008. In a standard Postfix+Amavis+ClamAv setup, you actually have [...]

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Vermyndax on January 21st, 2008

Why Linux will not displace Windows | TalkBack on ZDNet Absolutely hysterical, misinformed opinion about Windows and Linux.  Must read, especially you #morphixers. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Large Hospital Software Company Switches to Linux – OSS Ramblings While I’m not as optimistic as my buddy Tony on the increase of Linux market share, I am definitely in line with him on the decrease of Microsoft market share.  As I continue my march toward converting to an all-Mac environment at home, Windows has [...]

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Happy Linux Thoughts: Reasons why I love Microsoft’s Operating sytems Brilliant, tasty little satirical morsel for your enjoyment. I should also file this under jealousy that this is only the fifth entry and it’s already been Dugg to the front page. Bother. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself | Tech news blog – CNET News.com Good article. Go read. Now. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on September 24th, 2007

Last night I was reminded of why Linux’s failure to launch on the desktop will continue. It still does not survive the grandparent’s test. In my case, my stepfather wished to view videos and flash on the web. That, of course, doesn’t come naturally with Kubuntu, unless you’re wanting to watch video on with a [...]

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Microsoft Watch – Corporate – What Microsoft’s EU Ruling Means to You Good work, Europeans. You’ve finally delivered what was needed. Too bad the U.S. government was too much of a wuss. Folks in the cell phone and computer businesses need to wake up to what is going on outside of our country. Perhaps this [...]

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Microsoft Allegedly Bullies and Bribes to Make Office an International Standard While I know there’s two sides to every story, there’s enough negativity surrounding Microsoft on this issue that I just don’t care to hear their side. Sigh. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

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Vermyndax on August 18th, 2007

Jeff Jones Security Blog : July 2007 – Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard Jeff Jones, who makes a living for himself as a security consultant, has released a scorecard for operating systems as they stood around July 2007. Not surprisingly, the charts are fodder for everyone to bolster their arguments about which OS is better, which [...]

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