Daily Archives: March 23rd, 2006

The hackers manifesto

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

I quite enjoy this particular piece… It helps remind me of who I am, and the types of forces that have shaped me. No I’m not a hacker in the legal sense of the word. But I think that I qualify in the original, and possibly contemporary sense of the word. I think that sometimes [...]

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Of eye candy, pretty pictures, desktop operating systems, and promoting the linux utopia

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

First, take off your developer / admin / analyst / guru / |power-user hat. Why? Because if you’re going to think about the genre of the desktop operating system you cannot approach the idea with any of those hats on. If you do you will be wrong. Completely. Forever. Wrong. Second, drop the word “statistics,” [...]

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