Archive for the 'Windows' Category

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Linus Torvalds from his presentation of Git to Google in May, 2007 (@9:49 in the video):

[…] quite frankly, as far as I’m concerned, I do open source because I think it’s the only right way to do software, but at the same time, I’ll use the best tool for the job, and, quite frankly, Bitkeeper […]

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

For reasons I will not get into now, I have been spending some more time in Vista lately to get accustomed to it. As a user who’s been 100% dependent on Linux for a while, I have a personally customized Linux environment that I set up on every system I run — it’s my comfort […]

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I recently acquired a new machine, which has the following specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
3 GB 800mhz DDR2 RAM
Sapphire ATI X1550 512MB PCI-E XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS 512MB PCI-E
WD 500 GB SATA II
WD 250 GB SATA (I)
The machine came with Windows Vista Home Premium, and almost as a reflex, I removed it immediately in favor […]