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The Sunny Side Of The Internet

If you listen to the evening news or read the newspapers you would swear that the Internet was nothing but a collection of crooks and criminals out to defraud and debase wherever possible. There are disadvantages to any new medium but the advantages far out weigh the disadvantages. While the nabobs of negativism talk about phishing, identity theft, Wikipedia, facebook, credit card scams etcetera, etcetera - there are things going on, on the Internet which are of value. Here is my list of good sites on the web which offer some hope for ... More

DreamLinux - Part One The Install


Debian based DreamLinux 2.2 has generally been a good experience so far. Running on a AMD 64 Athlon 3000 with 1 gigabyte of RAM, 1 CDRW, ... More

Free Compilers?


Free BASIC Compilers and Interpreter is part of a website called The Free Country which is one of those website made in the spirit of the Internet back before 1995. Of course back in the day when we were ... More

Vista A Crippled OS

In lieu of responding to Guttmann's excellent white paper on Windows Vista and the deliberate crippling of the OS to meet the demands of Hollywood Microsoft has instead responded via a blog post in which the blogger answer none of Guttmann's points and makes up his own questions then answer them. This exercise in the art of marketing is carried out by one of Microsoft's lead programmer managers.  I have a few questions of my own. Why did Microsoft respond in a blog and not in a techinical paper which responded point by point to Guttmann's analysis? Is the fact that ... More
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Hitachi Announced 1 TB Drive


The world of home computing has changed drastically over the last decade. While Apple may have had a GUI before Microsoft – the world really did change with Windows 95. The Internet became more accessible, the computer became more usable, ... More

Curious Traffic Spikes

HostGator - the provider who sells me webspace and bandwidth - effectively forced me to upgrade my hosting package this week. It wasn't something I wanted to do but a sudden and completely unexpected spike in traffic on the 16th which resulted in close to 40 gigabytes of transfer in a single day threatened to close my site. It was a weird event and one which other webmasters are also dealing with if the gossip in webmaster world is to be believed. So what happened? No one seems to know. In my case 20 Gigs of the traffic was generated ... More