User: malanoche

Re:Portable Apps

On: Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day

If you're running an application other than the ones marked on a white list, your laptop is not really locked down...

Re:win95 was bad.

On: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

I once had to install w95 on several 4mb ram computers... it kept on bitching warnings about the 'convenience' of adding more ram... The 4mb minimum was a lie.

onto MY device??

On: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

"RMS is about extending your access control scheme onto my device." Not *your* device, bear in mind that there are places in the world where people work from company owned devices...

NDesktop

On: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

Win95 was a high COMMERCIAL point. But NTWorkstation was a much better os to work with. And the Win95 GUI also borrowed heavily from a precious little thing called "Norton Desktop" for w3.1, if anyone cares to remember.

Corrected motto

On: Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man

It's "Do no evil" BETA

WINE 2008

On: First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released

Excellent year...!

Oxymoron

On: Microsoft Quietly Offering Ad-Funded Version of Works

Come on... "Microsoft Works" ? I wouldnt say so...

New study by Accenture !

On: Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi

says that they are so full of sh$t, they publish studies stating the obvious. I think they never bothered to make the phonecalls... 12% sounds more or less accurate.

Special versions

On: Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web?

seem to me the only way to go... just as WAP, Mobile versions of the site. Your browser could send some info stating that you prefer the blind version, and thatÂs it. It should be fairly easy to do it with today CMS.