Microsoft Pushes On
Microsoft pushes on in server OS market. Linux only serious threat to Microsoft's increasing dominance, IDC says [InfoWorld: Top News]
more ...Microsoft pushes on in server OS market. Linux only serious threat to Microsoft's increasing dominance, IDC says [InfoWorld: Top News]
more ...Apparently, someone fell for the Nigerian spam scam. Supposedly:
more ...According to statistics presented at the International Conference on Advance Fee (419) Frauds in New York on Sept. 17, roughly 1 percent of the millions of people who receive 419 e-mails and faxes are successfully scammed.
Annual losses to the …
I've been working on ensuring compatibility with the upcoming .NET Framework 1.1 (and C# compiler v. 7.1) for the programs in Thinking in C#. Probably 98+% of the programs worked fine, although I'm seeing something very strange with one particular multithreading program. Almost undoubtedly, I introduced a defect …
more ...HP will push .NET. Personally, I don't think of HP as a major force in influencing software development.
more ...Liberty Alliance plans interoperability with Passport. Significantly good news.
more ...NY Times has published the 10 Most Beautiful Experiments in Science. I can accept that nothing from Computer Science made the list, but to snub Michelson-Morley? An outrage!
more ...Went to Stan Kelly-Bootle's 73rd birthday party last night. I drank like a fish, ate nothing, buttonholed Steve Bourne (Bourne shell, President of the ACM) about my attack on P != NP, got so wasted I sang Leaving of Liverpool. Stan, meanwhile, mesmerized 3 young women and then drank them under …
more ...Make that twelve secret herbs and spices: pot sold at a local KFC
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