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Stories · 6
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Fifteen Years of Technology Reporting
jeffdsimpson writes "PC World NZ is 15 years old this month and they've written a story looking back at some of the statements made in the magazine over the years. Some gems include 'The past 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in clock rates, from just under 5MHz for the original IBM PC to 33MHz for the latest 386 systems. This more than six-fold increase will not be repeated' from July 1989 and 'The Internet Connection Company of New Zealand (ICONZ) offers full internet access and charges $50 a megabyte for email, and $10 a megabyte for all other information sent or received' from April 1994" -
Building a Better Back Button
Justin Macfarlane writes "From Stuff: 'Net surfers use the back button more than any other key. A computer scientist has made the command more useful, writes Will Harvie.'" -
Redesigning The "Back" Button
TheMatt writes "Nature Science Update is reporting today about research by New Zealand scientists on redesigning how the "Back" button works in your browser. They point to the fact that the current "Back" is more of an "Up" in a stack of pages. They propose a system that records all pages visited. A good summary page of their efforts in web navigation (including a interesting thumbnail-style "Back" menu) can be found on their page." -
RMS on GNU, the Universe, and Everything
Matthew T writes "The one and only RMS is on a tour of New Zealand, and he gave a talk at the University of Canterbury this afternoon ... if you're interested in what he had to say (about Hurd's mistake, why KDE is a Bad ThingTM, and why WordPerfect, Oracle etc. for GNU/Linux are ultimately irrelevant, among other topics), I've done a rough write-up of the talk. " -
RMS on GNU, the Universe, and Everything
Matthew T writes "The one and only RMS is on a tour of New Zealand, and he gave a talk at the University of Canterbury this afternoon ... if you're interested in what he had to say (about Hurd's mistake, why KDE is a Bad ThingTM, and why WordPerfect, Oracle etc. for GNU/Linux are ultimately irrelevant, among other topics), I've done a rough write-up of the talk. " -
RMS on GNU, the Universe, and Everything
Matthew T writes "The one and only RMS is on a tour of New Zealand, and he gave a talk at the University of Canterbury this afternoon ... if you're interested in what he had to say (about Hurd's mistake, why KDE is a Bad ThingTM, and why WordPerfect, Oracle etc. for GNU/Linux are ultimately irrelevant, among other topics), I've done a rough write-up of the talk. "