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26 Dec, 2008

Mac vs PC

Posted by: yy In: Off Beaten Track| Personal Computing

Just saw this on Gizmodo. It is simply awesome!

11 Nov, 2008

Greatest geeks

Posted by: yy In: Off Beaten Track| Personal Computing

According to this article, the following are the greatest geeks of all time. Well, circa 2008 at the very least…

Linux Torvalds
Steve Wozniak
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Seymour Cray
Marc Andreessen
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
Alan Turing
Richard Stallman
Paul Allen

Have to admit, while the top 5 are familiar names to me, 6 & 7 are the “who??” choices, while [...]

A bit geeky, I know, but it’s good to get back to your roots sometimes, no? After all, wouldn’t you like to know what the twisted mind behind…., say, PERL, looks like??
Check out the creators of PERL and other well known computer programming languages in Faces behind popular languages.

10 Sep, 2008

Killer apps for Linux

Posted by: yy In: Personal Computing

Whoever has said or continues to say that there are no good applications on Linux, well, think again!
Here are some samples of softwares for daily use.

25 killer Linux apps
The 7 best closed-source apps for Linux
21 of the Best Free to Download Closed-Source Applications

As of around March of this year, I have successfully switched over to Linux for my home PC - I will probably say a bit more about that in a future post - as well as at work. Specifically, I am using the Ubuntu variant (32-bit for home and the 64-bit version for work), running [...]



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