December 2008 Archives
I have never had a successful Ubuntu dist-upgrade, so I had low expectations. Amazingly, it was successful on my computer...
In my younger days I had big dreams of being a successful fiction writer. As you can see, real life is far stranger and more implausible. This has to be a hoax. Please, make it be a hoax.
This is a weird and counter-productive way to promote Linux, because it treats all of its advantages as liabilities. It sets up new users for disappointment and failure, and it makes me wonder about the real motivations of everyone who is spreading this party line.
Naturally the quality is pretty uneven because it's people from all walks of life contributing-- young, old, non-native language speakers, and so forth. Nobody expects Nobel-winning literary excellence, but there are a few simple techniques for writing better documentation that anyone can learn.
Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base.
Is it serious? Well....
"...the intrusion was severe enough to raise the INFOCON status, the information security equivalent of the DEFCON alert, and also necessitate the briefing of the president."
And yet nobody is yelling "Why the heck are they using Windows?"
