Last night, I watched a 60 Minutes episode on CNBC which explored the danger foreign hackers pose to the US, especially to the banking industry, the government, and the power grid. The story (which seemed to be pieced together from stories originally aired on 11/08/09 and 3/27/09) highlighted the rapid spread of the conficker worm, [...]
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Why The Media Ignores Linux
September 19th, 2011 
Tim 
Posted in Internet, Linux, Microsoft, News, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Technology 
Comments OffHappy Document Freedom Day
March 31st, 2010 Tim Today is Document Freedom Day. If you’re not one of the open source faithful, or even if you are, you might not be familiar with this digital independence day. According to the web site at http://documentfreedom.org, “Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort [...]
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Tags: DFD, document, Document Freedom Day, educate, freedom, grassroots, liberation, open document formats, open standards 1 Comment »Webdesign & Ubuntu Linux
March 26th, 2008 Tim I’m a self-taught web designer that got his beginnings on a Windows machine using first Frontpage (gag) and then Dreamweaver. Now, I love my Dreamweaver. It rocks to no end with all it can do. Add in Fireworks and Photoshop to the mix and you have one sweet set of tools that will keep you [...]
The United States of Microsoft
February 10th, 2008 Tim ‘To describe writing as ” Orwellian ” means that it expresses a pessimistic view of a dull, uniform world where every aspect of life is controlled and organized by the State.’1 This is certainly an accurate description of my writing on the subject of Microsoft (and corporate culture in general). I consider myself a desktop [...]
Darkness Grows: Microsoft stalks Yahoo!
February 1st, 2008 Tim source: CNNMoney You don’t think Google is making them nervous, do you? The problem with this deal is that Yahoo is now an old school company. They’re stale, trying to keep up rather than leading the way. And what is this deal going to do for Yahoo? You don’t find any company staler and more [...]
Renault in Linux deal with Microsoft, Novell
February 1st, 2008 Tim source: InfoWorld This is because the technologically-challenged twits that make the business calls at large companies feel safe and snuggly in the arms of the Evil Empire. It’s like the old saying, “No one ever got fired for choosing IBM.” Why can’t Novell just deal with this? Because the CXX-level twits at Renault insist on [...]
A LAMP Unto My Feet!
November 26th, 2007 Tim The title of this post is a reference to the way Free and Open Source software in general, and Linux specifically, have shown the way to escape the prison of proprietary software and the concept, perhaps, of intellectual property.
