btw: guys with beards are usually mainframe operators; not unix gods!

an old review of windows xp. old yet still valid. he makes some excellent points regarding the user interface

This next point may seem to cross the line into obsessive, but I with
all the other eye candy going on (alpha blending fading menu shadows,
etc.) it's a fair point. If they can smooth the edges of your fonts,
why can't they smooth out the corners of the windows? Perhaps there are
good reasons for this - and I concede that this is getting to be a
little too nitpicky - but I still noticed it. (see //actsofvolition.)

note that i have winxp and i do like it, at least it is stable. but i dont use the default telly tubbie theme. *shiffre*

breaking news! leaked out screenshots of linux 3.2! wont be available for two years but the hype is starting already!!! available //here!!!!

weird news? yes! yet people *do* dig this kind of //news when it concerns microsoft's new longhorn?

what is the price of bashing gnu? forester found it out. they did some research sponsered by redmond and quess what? linux was more expensive than micro$oft.

Creating and maintaining a custom Web-based application with Java and Linux is almost 40% more expensive than using Microsoft Corp.'s software, according to a Microsoft-commissioned report from Forrester Research Inc

(see //computerworld)

So you think, nothing new? Yet another paid "independent" research showing prodct x is whiter than product y? Think again. forester changed its policy when finding out getting paid for crippled research doest pay off in the long run!

Forrester Research has changed its policy toward vendor-sponsored research following last month's publication of a controversial Microsoft-funded study that compared the cost of developing applications on Linux and Java to a Microsoft-based approach.

The policy change was announced in a letter written by George Colony, the CEO of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, company, and posted to the Forrester Web site late last week.

We will no longer accept paid for, publicized product comparisons," Colony said in an interview. "The best example of that would be the Microsoft report.

See //technewsworld.

yaaaawn! M"icrosoft to improve Windows security", read it at //securityfocus.

Stung by criticism over lax software security,
Microsoft Corp. disclosed plans Thursday to update its flagship Windows
operating systems early in 2004 to make consumers less vulnerable to
hackers.


i would nearly believe it if i havent heard it before and //before