Tag Archives: Microsoft

There’s a Hole in the %&*#^! Bucket

May 20, 2008 – 11:41 am

Ultimately, the thing that I absolutely cannot fucking stand about Windows is that every time I try to fix something, especially remotely, it turns into an infinite regression To fix A, I have to first fix B. To fix B, I have to change C. Now what the hell is wrong with [...]

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Resetting the foundations

June 7, 2007 – 10:24 am

It seems that Apple’s OS X is getting a new filesystem with its upcoming release of version 10.5. They’re reportedly moving to Sun’s ZFS.
From that link:
ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We’ve blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, [and] eliminated [...]

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“The longest suicide note in history”

December 29, 2006 – 12:26 am

“The [Windows] Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.”

Interesting reading, and it makes me wonder just what the minds in Redmond are thinking. Still trying to control the world I guess. *sigh*

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Who Woulda Thunk?

November 18, 2006 – 1:01 pm

Seems somebody over at the Redmond behemoth has a sense of humor!

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