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Archive for May 2006

Vista

Why I can’t wait for Vista.

FSF & DRM

Free Software Foundation: Free as in “do what I say”. If the author of that article really believes what he has written, he is an idiot. I don’t know what else to say.

Vista/SUSE Smackdown!

I’ve just read this article, which is of slight interest. The author compares Vista to the next version of SUSE GNU/Linux. But I’m left wondering why he’s comparing Vista and SUSE, when he should be comparing Vista and OS X (Tiger even, nevermind Leopard). Much of his reasoning for going for SUSE over Vista can [...]

America

Another great essay by Paul Graham. I take issue with some of his points, but generally I couldn’t agree more.

Web2.0

I never thought I’d actually use that term… my hands are still shaking from typing those 6 characters. Check out this page from 1994; Web2.0 came earlier than we thought.

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Hey, I'm Chris. I'm an English Theoretical Physics student, but most of this site is to do with web development topics. I like messing about with all sorts of programming languages, and generally hacking things together.
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