Antonella Pavese is leaving IT. She explains why: What I found frustrating is not so much the exclusion from the boy’s club–although there is definitely some of that–but rather the excessive emphasis on speed rather than quality (for a different take on this issue, see Alan Key on the disappointing lack of new and revolutionary […]

Stopped in for a while ay Wikkipedia (There’s no link because it’s not worth it). Here’s the basic concept, see if you can spot the flaw: Everyone is an expert on something, so everyone is welcome to write/edit an entry in this conglomeration. That way we can take advantage of the collective knowledge of the […]

Moving on from Retrospect. The tech support dept is lousy, the product is slow and clunky. The last straw? My mother’s biege G3 needed a new backup device. She’d been using a Zip drive, then moved on to a Yamaha SCSI-based CD-RW. Then we found a DVD-RW (USB and Firewire) for her. The Dantz support […]

It had to happen. The strains between Apple and the OS community are showing. I see where the KHTL developers are calling it a failure. I think it may have been, but to me it seems it was a failure expectations more than anything else. Dave Hyatt blogs a little a bout it. KDE developers […]