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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:17 PM

Linux - unbreakable until when?

Man, if I were dumb enough to claim anything as "unbreakable", I'd probably want to claim that you have a little bit more than two months of unbreakability (and yes, that is an unretouched graphic from Oracle's site ). Cousin Jeff notes...
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Sunday, August 06, 2006 8:07 AM

Internet Explorer 7 will be called ... Internet Explorer 7.

Thank goodness Microsoft saw sense . I can't imagine how many people would have asked me " where do I download the Plus pack for IE7 ?" For once, this is a tale about a name I would have chosen.
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Monday, June 26, 2006 8:39 AM

BluRay - a bad name for high-definition?

My attention was drawn to a graphic this morning that seemed to read "BLURRY" Turns out, it's just a slightly out-of-focus and small picture of a logo for "Blu-Ray", one of two competing standards for high definition DVDs. Seems like a bad idea to make...
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Friday, March 10, 2006 3:37 PM

Vista Bitlocker

A while back, I said that my dream job at Microsoft would be to refuse dumb product names. "WindowsCE?" I would say, "You do realise everyone will call that 'WinCE', which is something you do when you're in pain, yes?" ".NET Server? What does the OS have...
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