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Full Text: An Epic E-mail Rant by Bill Gates

Floppie — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:24:59 +0000

I went back through the internal e-mails turned over in the antitrust suits against Microsoft, looking for new insights into Bill Gate’s personality. Read on for one of the gems that turned up, showing Gates in the role of chief rabble-rouser. It shows that even the Microsoft co-founder isn’t immune to the frustrations of everyday computer users

Priceless. Completely and utterly priceless.

Announcing openSUSE 11.0 GM

Floppie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:11:45 +0000

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 which includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and much more.

I’m downloading my ISO now – it looks totally sweet. I should have my box running this by the end of the weekend.

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Wine 1.0 Released

Floppie — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:11:08 +0000

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

I’m downloading my RPM now. Should be fun to see if WoW runs any better.

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Perpetual Mario: The Musical

Floppie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:17:25 +0000

I don’t remember the game being this difficult, harmonic, and automated. Sweet video from Collegehumor, using a heavily modded Super Mario World and an assload of creativity.

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Natural Programmers (Code Monkeys) vs. Career Programmers (Geeks in Suits)

Floppie — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:25:05 +0000

This is so accurate it’s scary. The whole time I was reading it all I could keep thinking was “wow, yeah, that sounds like me”.

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