What The Huh…

I’m confused… What the huh…

The whole tech industry is getting stooopider

Yep. You read correctly. I’m not stt-tt-tt-uttering. Ok, maybe a little.
So, what’s up with the fucking dumbass naming conventions lately? I thought the Linux world owned the rights to fucking stupid names like Feisty Fawn, Dapper Dickhead, Whorry Hedgehole, and apps like Joomla. (what the fuck is a Joomla anyway? [...]

Open Orifice or MS Orifice?

About twice a year I take a poke at both of the office product suites to see how they’re progressing. This past month I installed the latest OpenOffice 2.x flavor on both Ubuntu 7.04 and on Windows Vista, as well as Microsoft Office 2007 (on Vista only of course).
The shake-down result?
Well, it depends. [...]

Dubious Stuff here

So, this article on MSNBC purports to say the DOJ sided with Microsoft by rejecting a complaint filed by Google against Windows Vista.  The article follows the same rhetorical shlock I’ve heard so often that I’m ready to puke when I heard it again: which says that Vista is built from the ground up to [...]

WTF?! moment #347

This quote from an eWeek article on Windows Server 2008 really surprised me (from Microsoft’s Iain McDonald, the managing director for Windows Server):
“We can tell which hypervisor they are running on and to be honest, I see zero on Linux. We see VMware rather than Xen because it’s not really out there in [...]