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As with many choices, it depends.

Why aren't we all using Linux?

News for Wednesday, April 26 2006

I never thought I would see the day.

A plan to sell ringtones may be a low-risk ploy to whet users' appetites for a raft of more lucrative VoIP-based entertainment services

Microsoft is heading out into the "Social Networking" market in a strange way -- by spinning off a new company, Wallop.

The group is taking advantage of the Google $1 reward for Firefox referrals to get people to move off of Internet Explorer.

Browser as X Terminal: good idea or three steps back?

Now with phone support, so you know it's good.

No peaking at your neighbour's work, use a #2 pencil, and fill in the circles completely.

What's a good way to get your head around objects? (Wait, isn't your head an object?)

Job opportunities in foreign countries are a difficult decision.

Check out this great analysis and debugging tool created by Karl von Randow.

News for Tuesday, April 25 2006

Microsoft is set to post for download from the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web site Beta 2 of IE 7 for Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 customers.

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

A hacking kit is being sold, and used, to attack a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Firefox.

You can't be fired for surfing the Web, at least in New York.

Patches to Mozilla's e-mail client bring it up to 1.5.02, and 1.7.13 will be the last of the Mozilla Suite.

For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite.

Scott McNealy, chief executive and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, stepped down on Monday and was replaced by President and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz.

Microsoft will begin to send notifications directly to their desktop that the copy of Windows they are running isn't genuine.

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Ah, back in the day, I remember watching the numbers dwindle in Intro to Computer Science and Numerical Algebra. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.