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Bill Gates

I’m not a big Bill Gates fan, but I’m pretty sure he’s not the Antichrist.

(No Fix for Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw) Microsoft has encountered a critical vulnerability in Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Me that it simply cannot fix, the company acknowledged Friday. The flaw affects Windows Explorer and after investigating the issue, Microsoft said it would need to reengineer a significant amount of the operating system. … Continue reading “Critical Windows 98, Me Flaw”

Windows ‘Fun’

(via wincustomize.com) Here’s how to do it: Open up Notepad (not Wordpad, not Word or any other word processor) Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): “this app can break” Save the file to your hard drive. Close Notepad Open the saved file by double clicking it. One has to wonder how many more of … Continue reading “Windows ‘Fun’”

Ruby dooby doooo….

I’ve recently started learning Ruby. One could ask “why learn yet another scripting language, especially since Perl has served so well these past several years?” The only reason is the object oriented features of Perl seem tacked on as an afterthought, while Ruby is a is a complete, full, pure object oriented language: OOL (object … Continue reading “Ruby dooby doooo….”

Linux Posters

(via email) Inspirational Linux Posters:

Fortran vs. Algol

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Metaphysical shell script output

XXXXXXXX.sh: Shell script existing successfully I suppose we’d never see this message if this shell script wasn’t existing successfully.

So What?

Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind Even if Microsoft’s claim is true (which it certainly is not), so what? What’s been added to Microsoft Office since 1996 that you can’t live without?

78,498 Prime Numbers

1 < prime numbers < 100,000 100,000 < prime numbers < 200,000 200,000 < prime numbers < 300,000 300,000 < prime numbers < 400,000 400,000 < prime numbers < 500,000 500,000 < prime numbers < 600,000 600,000 < prime numbers < 700,000 700,000 < prime numbers < 800,000 800,000 < prime numbers < 900,000 900,000 … Continue reading “78,498 Prime Numbers”

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