As more and more open source software runs well on windows (something which has not always been that way to my great frustration), becomes more cross platform (e.g. xchat, sodipodi, gaim, openoffice ), i found myself needing an apt-get equivalent on windows.

Usually windows versions of OSS are either file archives to …

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Linus on kernel management style

While it turns out that most people are idiots, the corollary to that is sadly that you are one too, and that while we can all bask in the secure knowledge that we're better than the average person (let's face it, nobody ever believes that they're average or …

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From the back yard. Pity it is too cold to sit there with a beer.

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Those marketing guys must be rather clueless, lots of software vendors pick a couple of letters and prefix all their software titles with it.

I can only gues this is due to lack of inspiration or to create at least the impression that the software is like a suite of packages which work together (which it does not in …

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I decided to disable comments alltogether on this blog. The amount of time required to manage the ip banning and deleting the spam comments is getting too much in comparison with the small scale blogging i do over here.

I just dont have the time to go to war on this and keep securing the blog, while giving others the …

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