Archive for January, 2005
Thursday, January 27th, 2005
Good Technical Interview Questions
Doug Ross is looking for “offbeat” technical interview questions, and has a few suggestions of his own to start things off. I’d say he’s on the right track.
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
Bill Gates: Teen Idol?
This is just so wrong.
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Monday, January 17th, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists
Once again there is a Carnival of the Capitalists, this week hosted at Small Business Trends.
Of particular interest, I found there is a CIO Weblog, touting business and technology coverage of the software market. First Call was not impressed with Apple’s new Home Media Server. Frank Scavo reports on Microsoft’s efforts to pick [...]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2005
Do We Make It Too Easy?
When I got my first IBM compatible PC, a 286, it booted up to a C prompt. That was it.
I had to know or learn what was a file and a directory, how to navigate, and that some files by typing their names and pressing enter would - gasp! - run program. Do [...]
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Friday, January 14th, 2005
Alarm in the Firefox Zone
Via Dean Esmay, disturbing news about Zone Alarm and Firefox. Well, sounds like it’s also about XP SP2.
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Time for a Switch
I have long said the same thing. Granted, on most computers now there is a switch directly on the power supply, at the back of the machine. But sometimes there isn’t, and there was a window of time when the funky switches that are controlled through the motherboard had started, but power supplies [...]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists Catching Up
I have been remiss in failing to link to the editions of Carnival of the Capitalists in weeks following the one hosted here. Not such an odd thing to link, since this blog is about technology and geek stuff, but also about business to a lesser degree, this business and more generally. So [...]
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Firefox Tweaks and More
There are some extensive details on how to tweak Firefox linked from here.
I added a user.js for myself, and used the tweak to add an option to force new window links to open in the same tab or a new tab. I opted for new tab. The only things I don’t [...]
