“Fibonacci” on the 168Hours blog says no and offers 10 Reasons why GUI Doesn’t Matter. His reasons, however, are basically screenshots using various tools to make Windows look a lot like Ubuntu (Linux), Mac OS X, Fedora, or KDE Plastik. I think this overlooks several key factors: performance, out-of-the-box configuration, and mass appeal. Performance: first […]
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Subject: “Aliens Abducted By Michael Jackson” Sometimes, I admit, spammers actually amuse me. (In case you’re wondering, though, the body of the message was incoherent gibberish.)
WordPress now account for 57% of weblog posts, according to the Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown. [ed.: link updated to an archived link because the original was broken]
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Ever send an email without the attachment? You go on and on about what’s in it, then never send the file. I’ve done that. No more; now there’s the Outlook attachment reminder macro. Easy to install, and I just verified it works. Hat tip: lifehacker.
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The number of Russian-language spams (or at least Cyrillic font) I get has risen dramatically, lately. For a while, I got a lot of Chinese and Korean spams, but now, the Russian stuff reigns supreme, at a bit over 5% of the total. I’m not sure what this signifies. On the one hand, obviously, a
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