I have read a few things in which S.M. Stirling has collaborated over time, like the Raj Whitehall series with David Drake, Jimmy The Hand (part of Raymond E. Feist’s Legends of the Riftwar series) and some others, but I had never read any of his non-collaboration works, until now.
The Island in the Sea of [...]
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Jul
30
Service Contracts on a website
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Ok, I know this has been on slashdot already, so probably everybody read about it by now, but I thought it was important to point to what, for many reasons, is the more authoritative source for this kind of stuff, IMNSHO. PJ, over at Groklaw, posted an article about the Douglas v USDC Central District [...]
Jul
24
Microsoft and its cheating ways, this time in Andalucia, Spain, regarding OOXML
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Well, PJ over at Groklaw is at it again, this time with a short but interesting post called Now It’s Spain and OOXML - More Standards Highjinks?.
It seems that back when the technical committee was to meet in Spain to discuss if they’d accept or not Microsoft’s OOXML as an ISO standard, MS sent (or [...]
Jul
20
JP’s favorite fiction genre, and also mine :)
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JP, over at SFSignal posted a couple of days ago an article about his favorite type of SF, declaring himself a Space Opera fan…and here I am to agree with him :)
The post mentions a few interesting space operas, but it also skips at least one that I love (Honor Harrington). But all in all, [...]
Jul
18
Catching up with Bruce :)
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With the downtime of the old host, the move to the new host and the fact that I busted my back on friday and couldn’t get out of bed until monday, I’ve been way too inactive, both in my RSS reading and my blogging…well…time to catch up :)
First up, catching up with Bruce Schneier…he’s got [...]
Jul
17
The New Home! :)
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As you may have noticed, the blog has moved.
We’ve gone to a new domain and a new host, after being hosted by the UANL LUG for over a year (almost 18 months). I want to thank Edgar and Juan Pablo for all their help and support for all that time.
And I also want to thank [...]
Jul
11
Well, a bit late, but…happy bday, Handy! :)
My memory sucks, so I didn’t remember your bday til I saw Rich’s post…and then I decided that I’d keep it short and say…what Rich said, C&P here, I agree with him 100% :)
Jul
10
Google desktop for linux, first impression
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We all know that I usually leave all the Web2.0 stuff to Handy, but this time…I’m not actually sure Google Desktop actually qualifies as W2.0, so I decided to take a look at the new linux version :)
I installed Google Desktop for Linux on my box 12 days ago. I was actually pretty excited about [...]
Jul
9
To those about to hack, a tale of two approaches
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Handy found an interesting article on Hacknot talking about the different approaches to work…it’s pointed at coders, but works just as well for admins like me and almost any other profession…worth a read.
Jul
7
Make OpenOffice.org Writer go faster!
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As you’ve probably deduced by now, I’m a user of Free/Open Source Software, which means that I skip the MS tax…besides, OpenOffice.org kills MSOffice any day of the week and twice on sunday :)
Well…except that OO.o is slow as molasses to start. At least somebody found a way to Make OpenOffice.org Writer Run Faster. He [...]
