/Rants
Use a Mac, it’s more secure
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Run Windows on it with Bootcamp and Parrallels
Hmmm…
Apart from the obvious fact it’s not more secure. If your primary reason for moving to the Mac is it’s more secure than Windows (and that is a reason for a whole lot of people) why then do so many people run Windows on it?
Vista: Less vulnerabilites than RedHat, Ubuntu, MAC OS X 10.4
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Before the Mac and Linux fanboys jump all over this (as they have in several other blogs who have mentioned this report). I’ll point out upfront the following:
Yes, the guy who wrote the report works for Microsoft
No, this doesn’t (necessarily) mean he is biased
I use Linux (several flavours), Unix and Windows both [...]
Yahoo: Slurp
Friday, June 15th, 2007Just checked my weblogs and found out Yahoo Slurp has used over 13GB of my precious bandwidth (compared to 2GB for the whole of May) this month, the next closest is GoogleBot at around 1GB. Needless to say I’m not very impressed so I’m going to block them until their bot learns to behave. Grrrr
Microsoft vs Open Source
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Jeff Atwood has a very interesting article on Giving Up on Microsoft. Like him I’ve spent most of my professional life using Microsoft tools, I started out on Visual Basic (which for all the knocks it gets is a massively productive language) and I moved to C# around 4 years ago although I started dabbling [...]
Suspicious on the tube
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005Scary how easy it is to be suspicious on the tube. I guess he’s lucky they didn’t shoot first and ask quesions later. This is a prime example of why the police and government should not be given extra powers because of the culture of fear being whipped up by politicians and the media. It [...]