Category: Computer

  • Who’s on first, Updated

    ABBOTT: Super Duper Computer Store… Can I help you?COSTELLO: Thanks. I’m setting up an office in my den, and I’m thinking about buying a computer.ABBOTT: Mac?COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou.ABBOTT: Your computer?COSTELLO: I don’t own a computer. I want to buy one.ABBOTT: Mac?COSTELLO: I told you, my name’s Lou.ABBOTT: What about Windows?COSTELLO: Why? Will it…

  • The early bird

    Microsoft is not being caught napping this time.  They’re out to catch the jerk who wrote the Sasser worm, and they’re working with the FBI and Secret Service to do it (although I’m not sure why the Secret Service is interested).They have a $5 million reward fund in abeyance too, though they haven’t yet put…

  • Penniless engineer returns

    Today, I found this lovely picture of the penniless engineer.I guess he’s still working for Micro$oft.

  • Yes indeedy

    [Linux developers] created something really, really valuable.  In America, that attracts lawyers.Daniel Egger, founder and chair of Open Source Risk Management, a startup selling legal insurance for copyright claims against open source software

  • Amazing

    The following quote was included in a sales letter from Microsoft for Windows Server 2003 that I received last week:We upgraded from our NT domain to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory in just one evening.  Now our IT staff has a directory enabled environment to refine its control over the desktop, and new…

  • Office Workers Willing To Leak Passwords for Chocolate

    Almost three quarters of office workers in an impromptu man-on-the-street survey were willing to give up their passwords when offered the bribe of a chocolate bar. The organizers of the conference Infosecurity Europe 2004 plans to announce on Tuesday that they surveyed office workers at Liverpool Street Station in England, and found that 71 percent…

  • How Amazon Does it

    Hire the best, raise the bar, don’t treat engineers as order takers, empower teams, remove friction, and know when to buy and when to build.Allan Vermeulen