One of John C. Dvorak’s latest articles is an ode to Shrink-Wrapped software and why it’s long from dead. Some of his arguments are correct, but many aren’t.
1. The network sucks
True, the network is the weakest link in the entire Software as a Service design. But I think John fails to see that the companies [...]

While everyone has probably heard of Wikipedia before, the younger Wikileaks is much less famous. While Wikipedia is focusing on being the world’s first free and open encyclopedia, Wikileaks is an uncensorable wikipedia for leaking documents and analysis.
Wikileaks describes itself as:
The first ingredient of civil society is the people’s right to know, because without such [...]

The researchers of the Princeton University that claimed to have broken virtually all disk encryption schemes have now released the source code of their research.
Last february the researchers were able to bypass all disk encryption schemes by freezing a computer’s memory with liquid oxygen and retrieving the encryption keys from the frozen memory banks.
Contrary to [...]

We all know Vim is the best editor there is ;-): endless posibilities, super fast editing and looking cool as hell when other people see you work. Here are 100 Vim commands [every programmer] should know.

Just got back from vacation yesterday after a gruelling seven hour drive. And what beter way to be welcomed home than by finding my Neo Freerunner waiting for me The phone was very professionally packed, the absense of a manual was the only thing giving away that this isn’t a mass market product (yet).
Besides [...]

My Freerunner will leave for shipment tomorrow! Unfortunately I’m leaving on holliday sunday morning so it won’t be another 8 days untill I can get my hands on it
To ease the pain (or increase it?) I’ve been scourging the web for reviews, pictures and the likes. There don’t appear to be many Freerunners [...]

There’s a great tutorial on Awk over at Common threads: Awk by example, Part 1 by Daniel Robbins.
In this series of articles, I’m going to turn you into a proficient awk coder. I’ll admit, awk doesn’t have a very pretty or particularly “hip” name, and the GNU version of awk, called gawk, sounds downright weird. [...]

My day starting out great at work, printing problems! The dream of every system administrator!
The printer that was acting up was a Dell 5210n, a huge black output monster that generally works extremely well, fast and reliable… except today. After all the standard troubleshooting stuff it still wouldn’t print (and even now it stills refuses). [...]

Computerworld has an interview with Alfred V. Aho, where he talks about the history and continuing popularity of his pattern matching language. How it came to be and what’s behind it never decreasing popularity.
Don’t know what Awk is? Let’s see what Wikipedia tells us:
AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing [...]

The new microblogging service identi.ca has been online for some time now and its user base is growing steadily. It hasn’t gotten as much attention as Twitter or Jaiku to name a few, but identi.ca offers some features that are quite compelling to geeks as myself.
Perhaps the best thing about identi.ca is that its an [...]