The SoapVox

Last night I spent two hours watching the Presidential debate on TV. Four out of the five candidates for the Mexican Presidency got together to talk about their proposal and ideas…and about each other…and it was an interesting sight, unlike what I thought it’d be.
I know I’ve never talked about politics here, but being born, [...]

Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, passed away the night of April 20th.
She was part of the group of female mathematicians that worked on ENIAC during WW2. She was also married to the also deceased John Mauchly, co-inventor of ENIAC (link to the Women In Technology International Hall of Fame) and UNIVAC.
She wrote several articles and gave [...]

I found this article in LinuxToday about a study on linux vs windows management. The study comes to the following conclusion:
This study found, at worst, a marginal difference in base resource costs
between Linux and Windows. Linux becomes less expensive when taking into
account the ability of Linux to support larger numbers of users, and the
additional productivity [...]

Unlike my previously reviewed series, this one is fantasy, not SF…which makes it a rarity in two aspects.
The first rare aspect of it is that I haven’t been reading much fantasy in the last few years…my interest has gone more and more towards military SF (as you have probably guessed by now :) than the [...]