stuff on opinions

ct*: microsoft’s linux

Saturday, 11 November 2006 8:16 pm by noel
posted in linux, opinions, software, stuff

i was reading a blog entry saying that linux won. yes! finally! bring out the champagne! linux won! microsoft will now have to jump into the bandwagon and make its own linux. it makes sense since they just got into that 5-year agreement with novell. after that i am willing to bet that microsoft will [...]

nailed at 14535

Tuesday, 7 November 2006 2:50 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, internet, opinions

its been nailed at 14535 for about two days now. strange. either the spammers have stopped, which is highly unlikely, or i just reached a cap at yahoo! mail. i’m going to leave it at that and see if my 30-day settings work. yahoo!’s spamguard keeps the bulk mail for 30 days after which it [...]

but when will we be ready?

Saturday, 4 November 2006 11:48 pm by noel
posted in linux, opinions, software

i was reading an entry of adrian’s over at zdnet and i agree on most of the points presented. gaming yes, there is a dearth of great games that can run on linux and wine doesn’t really cut it. yet. i can probably go and run windows virtually and run the game off it but [...]

microsoft testing open source waters?

Saturday, 4 November 2006 8:08 am by noel
posted in opinions, software

its seems that microsoft has been moving about in the open source space. there’s a partnership with zend, a company formed to commercialize php and then there’s one with novell which would simplify running linux on windows and vice versa. strangely enough, this makes microsoft a reseller of suse linux and would provide support for [...]