Posts filed under “Tim”
The GPL Virus
The “open source war” is something that I frequently comment on, and as time goes on, I continually grow to understand the implications of this war, and the motivations of those involved. The war is often characterized as a war between the hacker champions of open source software and the draconian closed source overlords. In [...]
UAC is like fine wine
User Account Control, or UAC, is Microsoft’s solution to the “Always Admin” problem in XP. Most unix guys deride Windows XP because it has the user run as root (aka Administrator) by default. Running as Administrator means that if you get infected with spyware/viruses, the whole computer is pretty much infected. The reason for running [...]
Thinking outside the box
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The classic Windows vs. Linux argument
You’ll never catch me saying “Windows is better than Linux”. You simply cannot make a value judgement without the context of evaluation criteria. Having said that, I’d like to take the time to refute a comparison claiming Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows. Here’s my point-by-point: 4) Linux and BSD distributions are more [...]