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This might easily be reworded as: "There are just two kinds of software: the ones everybody complains about and the ones nobody uses."

This guy that submitted this appears to be a tad biased, even a Yahoo fanboy. There is a Yahoo category on his blog with over 40 entries, and no Google category. So, there's not a wonderfully balanced point of view here. I'd take his "verdict" with a grain of salt, flamebait at best.

http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/category/yahoo/

He’s got another one (currently in Teh Misteereeus Fyoocher), this time with his name linked to yet another domain. I wonder what that service costs.

But never mind that. There are countries out there where selling heroin is legal. This doesn't make it legal for you to have them ship it to your door in New Jersey. allofmp3.com could be 100% peachy-keen in Russia (which it's not). It doesn't matter: it's illegal for you to buy from them if you live in the US. US copyright law is very clear on this matter. You are committing just as big a crime as you are by downloading from gnutella. Only you're stupidly paying allofmp3.com the privilege to do it.

There are many free online solutions, here is a list from Alex Moskalyuk's blog http://moskalyuk.com/blog/free-tax-software/432/tr ackback/

They all talk like that at Microsoft.

I am currently using two Web hosting providers, both for Web and e-mail, that I feel I can recommend. That's out of 5-6 hosting providers that I've used total. DreamHost has good plans, almost 99.999% uptime and pretty strong support services. I've been with them for about half a year, and so far have only the best impressions. I sent out a support e-mail once (had some database troubles), and got back a reply within 5 minutes (they don't promise that, but they guarantee a reply within 24 hours). Seems like they have plenty of customers and hence hire dedicated staff for support. Some domains hosted there (if you want to check the traceroute or load speed) - collectorcarbuff.com, thatwasfunny.com.

I've been with VerveHosting for about 5 years, they've been hosting my e-mail and provided Web hosting, the same thing - excellent uptimes and timely support, always got a reply within an hour or so in case I had a problem. Also, several times I needed custom Perl modules for the Web server, and all I had to do is ask. Domain hosted on VerveHosting - moskalyuk.com and hotdealsportal.com.

There are three others which I won't recommend (one happened to give me a 3-day-in-a-row downtime once), but I don't want to mention their names. WebHostingTalk is a great place to look for deals on hosting and read reviews.

From personal experience - I stopped looking for unbeliavably low prices, as those hosters would inevitably be the ones having problems. Good service costs money, and support can be crucial issue, if your site is selling products or selling ads, since every hour of downtime brings lost revenues. The link to DreamHost above is a kickback link (they have an award program for each customer, where the kickback earned goes towards the hosting bill), but other than that I don't profit from the links, and do not work for any of the companies.

I discovered how to make a Firefox plugin for limiting Google searches to select few sites, but the problem before was that each site:domainname.com directive was treated as a term. So if you wanted to search 7 sites at once, then google would let you enter maximum of 3 keywords to span that search across multiple sites. So this keywords increase, you can do stuff like 5-word searches across 10 domain names, for example.

Mainly dealt with the blogging engines here, since most of the sites are content-driven without the need for many additional modules.

MovableType - fast to setup, easy to deploy, live community with hacks and what not around it, but since the move to the paid distro in 3.0 the activity died off a little bit. Never upgraded to the paid version, couldn't justify the license money with WordPress having so many similar features. It's a Perl+MySQL or Perl+flat file set up, so theoretically nothing more than cgi-bin is required.

Which brings us to WordPress - extensible, lively community, very easy to install and setup. The engine itself is a bit immature at this point for some advanced stuff, but if you know PHP, you'll find your way around it. Has a link manager and mass edit for comments (very useful for spam treatment), extensible as far as design, not too modular though.

pMachine - easy to set up, easy to use, but not too flexible. Coded in PHP and uses MySQL, many tweaks available, but limited functionality for the free version. The authors have since moved on to a different project, Expression Engine, and the community is a bit abandoned.

The above links are going to my sites which run the said engines, not the engines themselves, a simple google search would take you to download pages for the engines.

Quick guide to programming languages

Since Google CEO as well as Yahoo CEO endorsed John Kerry for President.

How Russian music licensing works.

Compulsory licensing, so it's legal as far as they care. It's not really legal to distribute that music outside of Russia though.

Competition means better products at lower prices. The intertwined/alternating point on the graph in the article makes me happy about the state of hardware.

Nothing like competition to make a good company's products better.

Free programming books published online.

RSS Bandit is good, I switched to it from SharpReader some time ago and never went back.

Well, first the disclaimer - I know nothing about this project that I will link to, but was pretty interested in the same thing.

I've written a bunch of book reviews, including those on Slashdot, and some publishers are sending me now catalogs with upcoming titles as part of their reviewing program.

So, anyway, Wiley has this book with the robot kit, that they plan the next edition of some time this September, although the publisher told me before that the deadline might move into the future. I have not read the previous edition, nor have I played with it.

It seems to have received brilliant reviews on Amazon for that 1999 edition, so I'd suggest just perusing it and maybe buying the book+kit used if it's in buildable condition (i.e. not the robot that is already all built, polished, given guns and ammo, and right now just needs the ON switch to be turned).

see them pictures

Also, press release from Philips and press release from Sony with even better pictures.

I realize that you didn't make the comment above about Microsoft "secretly using Sun servers", but those are the kind of statements that really make me upset because they are demonstrably false. If you ever had an opportunity to visit the Redmond campus, you would see that.

Microsoft invented the term "dogfood." Eating your own dogfood was slang introduced in the DOS days. Dogfood is software that's not even in BETA yet: in other words, not ready for public consumption. Microsoft is famous for having its people eat their own dogfood. It is not like the networking company you worked at.

Other terms first used at Microsoft? Vaporware. Death March. OOF. See other Microsoft jargon.

How many of you were running 2.3.x or 2.5.x kernels before 2.4.x and 2.6.x came out? It's amazing how people on Slashdot just can't seem to give Microsoft credit.

I keep a collection of Microsoft Jargon, the MSFT equivalent of the Jargon File. Many words and phrases are so commonday right now, that it's hard to consider it jargon anymore. Many terms are adopted at other corps as well, like BizDev and config.

Among my favorites are Buzzowrd Bingo and FYIV.

Hey, the original poster (prostoalex) perhaps has missed all market news since the time of Microsoft/Corel deal. He doesn't know (yet) that the market is down and so on. Leave the guy alone.

So it's totally off-topic, and the story's off the main pages so nobody will even read this comment... but I was just checking out the Slashdot Hall of Fame, and noticed that prostoalex just scored his 100th story submission with this article, putting him on top of the HOF by a good 23 articles ahead of his nearest competitor.

And I thought I was doing good with my 3-for-5 record!

His site looks cool... well, the main page is in Russian, but it still looks cool. I'm getting a kick out of his job interview section... I call myself a VB coder, but many of the questions in this section threw me for a loop -- I've been coding the same app *way* too long! It's going to be a must-read before I try to land a new gig (and a reminder why I'm staying put).

So it's totally off-topic, and the story's off the main pages so nobody will even read this comment... but I was just checking out the Slashdot Hall of Fame, and noticed that prostoalex just scored his 100th story submission with this article, putting him on top of the HOF by a good 23 articles ahead of his nearest competitor.

And I thought I was doing good with my 3-for-5 record!

His site looks cool... well, the main page is in Russian, but it still looks cool. I'm getting a kick out of his job interview section... I call myself a VB coder, but many of the questions in this section threw me for a loop -- I've been coding the same app *way* too long! It's going to be a must-read before I try to land a new gig (and a reminder why I'm staying put).

So it's totally off-topic, and the story's off the main pages so nobody will even read this comment... but I was just checking out the Slashdot Hall of Fame, and noticed that prostoalex just scored his 100th story submission with this article, putting him on top of the HOF by a good 23 articles ahead of his nearest competitor.

And I thought I was doing good with my 3-for-5 record!

His site looks cool... well, the main page is in Russian, but it still looks cool. I'm getting a kick out of his job interview section... I call myself a VB coder, but many of the questions in this section threw me for a loop -- I've been coding the same app *way* too long! It's going to be a must-read before I try to land a new gig (and a reminder why I'm staying put).

From the experience I can say that small Webmasters do not have any problem getting a high rank on Google if the content of the page is relevant and there are some links posted to the site.

My highest trafficked pages on my personal site, C++ interview questions, and Java interview questions achieved a top 5 ranking for the terms above without me really trying. Actually, the only way I found out about high rankings on Google is when my tracking system showed up 200 hits coming from google.com.

If a site can achieve reasonably high rankings with absolutely no effort, I don't really see Google being tyrannical or discriminatory in any way.

From the experience I can say that small Webmasters do not have any problem getting a high rank on Google if the content of the page is relevant and there are some links posted to the site.

My highest trafficked pages on my personal site, C++ interview questions, and Java interview questions achieved a top 5 ranking for the terms above without me really trying. Actually, the only way I found out about high rankings on Google is when my tracking system showed up 200 hits coming from google.com.

If a site can achieve reasonably high rankings with absolutely no effort, I don't really see Google being tyrannical or discriminatory in any way.