Dec 07, 2004
Interesting Links
The comedy continues - HP to acquire Veritas Technology rather than integrate Tru64 storage tools. HP are definitely on the wrong track deprecating Tru64 in favour of HP-UX. The fact that the Alpha processor is still holding its own against modern Itanium chips long after any significant R & D effort has gone into developing a new generation of chips is pretty remarkable (I believe the EV7 is the last in the line). Perhaps they should 'Open Source' Tru64 and OpenVMS rather than let them die ?
A fairly long and comprehensive article on keeping FreeBSD updated.
Great sketches of the imaginary bone structures of some popular comic/cartoon characters - Cartoon Skeletal Systems.
Jakob Nielson discusses - the most hated Advertising Techniques.
Tinyapps has a couple of great pointers - Confidentiality and Word Metadata and a PDF of Windows 2000 services that can be disabled.
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