With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other.

“Linux - We don’t recommend it.” — uttered by a Dell Customer Service Representative, one of those that helps you “build” your computer as you speak to them over the phone.

Here’s a list of free computer science courses online and material online. Most of these sites have lecture videos or audio recordings.

After surveying a rather large g-file collection, my attention was drawn to
the fact that there hasn’t been a good introductory file written for absolute
beginners since back when Mark Tabas was cranking them out (and almost
*everyone* was a beginner!) The Arts of Hacking and Phreaking have changed
radically since that time, …

There’s something about those coupon codes. I just can’t process an order without getting a code in. If I don’t use some sort of code, I just feel ripped off! So here’s some codes for discounts like free shipping, combo deals, and gifts from Newegg. If you’ve got some …

In some versions of Macintosh OS X, it evidently appears that the side by side iMac and Macintosh Mini will indeed be based on the NVIDIA MCP79 chipset. MacBook, MacBook and MacBook Air models all went to the NVIDIA chipsets back in October. What’s going on with the …

I just read a horrendous article on a wannabe news site called “The Hollywood Reporter” where the author, Paul Bond, devastatingly butchered definitions and skipped any attempt at providing even a miniscule speck of detail from the report he sourced.  It basically looked like he strung together a bunch of …

According to gnu.org, “Installation directories should always be named by variables, so it is easy to install in a nonstandard place. The standard names for these variables and the values they should have in GNU packages are described below. They are based on a standard filesystem layout; variants …