I’m a PC

Judging, by the blogosphere’s reaction, I’m one of the few people who liked the Gates-Seinfeld ads by Microsoft. They were odd, sure, but it got people thinking, talking, going WTF? – and that can’t be bad.
But I definitely like the I’m a PC ads better. I was at the company meeting when they debuted, and [...]

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Top 10 Things To Do My First Week at Microsoft

Wear my Google t-shirt.
Set my homepage to www.google.com
Continually ask, “Have you met BillG? Where’s BillG? When can I see BillG?”
Show off my bright blue iPod Nano
“Upgrade” my workstation to Windows XP
Then just format it and install Ubuntu
Randomly shout “Yahoo!” as I walk through [...]

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10 Ways to Learn New Things in Development

Expanding upon one of the topics in my post about 5 Attributes of Highly Effective Developers, I’ve been thinking of various ways to kick-start learning opportunities in my career and hobbies.
1. Read books. There are tons of books about programming–probably most of them are useless, but there are many, many gems that can greatly influence [...]

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Linux Reality Check

Over at Slashdot, Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack responds to some frank question about the Fedora project.
He talks about a number of topics:

Unified package managers across distros
Propritetary drivers
Differences in Linux over time
Fedora’s biggest weakness
Threat of Vista
inclusion of NTFS driver in kernel
Wacky package dependencies
a few others…

What his article demontrates to me is that Linux is going [...]

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Still No Silver Bullet…

Much is being made lately about vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, and various people are either haughtily dengrating the Mac while others are pooh-poohing the results with bad logic.
All of the ridiculous claims of “My OS is [better | more secure | safer] than your OS” is getting old. All these problems really do is [...]

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Credibility

One thing I cannot stand that is so prevalent in the computer industry is criticism by people of ideas, products, and technologies that they don’t understand. You see this a lot in the OS wars–especially of Windows, but Linux and Apple are not immune.
In very few cases do people have a well-reasoned and thought out [...]

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