Paul Graham, founder of Y-Combinator, posted an article about Microsoft being dead and Don Dodge, of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team, quickly posted a desprate response boasting Microsoft’s revenue growth figures as a rebuttal. Both article’s have pretty strong points but I feel like both are too extreme to be completely valid. Graham claims Microsoft [...]
This is awesome! Executable images created for the DOS/Wintel environment (but not employing the Win32 API), using the GNU GCC compilers and language standards, are subject to failure (or performance degradation) when executed in Microsoft Windows Vista, because Vista arbitrarily restricts the memory space for the GCC executable to 32 MB (33,554,432 bytes). Attempts to [...]
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Posted 30 March 2007
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Mark Shuttleworth has posted a response to Dell’s Linux survey on his blog. He brings up two main observations: the first being “margins on PC’s are razor-thin” and the second being “free software fans are a fussy crowd.” Both of these observations are presented in a way which seems to say it will be hard [...]
Dell’s idea storm has been no secret among the Linux and OSS bloggers and therefore, the “Linux on Dell” idea has dominated the votes. Within a week, Dell responded saying they will make Linux happen. But really, with 10,000+ votes, how can it be ignored? Take the Dell Linux survey and tell Dell what you [...]
Weighing My Options Almost in response to my previous post about not knowing which path to take after college (higher education or the work force), I was invited for a Dell interview for a summer internship. I was offered a job on the spot and accepted several seconds afterwards to work on Windows Vista Server [...]