Inspired by What “Be Yourself” Really Means, a cool contemplation about an advice that is usually both, thoughtlessly given and taken.
Continue reading about The Unique Blockhead – Or Why Your Unique Self Just Ain’t Enough To Succeed
Not long ago, I updated my antivirus software to a new version. I do that regularly, as it is so easy to keep track with new updates: The software does that for me! Every time a newer version of it was released, the software asked me if I wanted to update to that new version. [...]
Recently, I’m increasingly getting spam comments which refer to (yet another) “easy money from home” program. Interestingly, this time the name “Google” is involved. So I just thought I might jot down a bit of rant about it, but this turned out to be an analysis of the “easy money from home” scam pattern. I [...]
Continue reading about Thousands of Dollars a Month Posting Links on Google from Home?
The notion of “free” in FOSS – Free and Open Source Software – is commonly explained a “Free as in free speech, not as in free beer”. In practice, open source software is often provided literally for free – as I do with my plugins – and this is often referred to as “It’s free [...]
Continue reading about What Is Open Source Support Worth To You?
The other day I started a System Recovery1 on my Vista. Surprisingly (or actually not so surprisingly), I’ve been prompted with the following initial message (translation from German, underlining mine):
In case you don’t know, since Windows XP the operating system creates recovery points before every installation. If something goes wrong during the installation or an [...]
Sick and tired of all the FUD about the Conficker and whatnot? Even scared? Fear not, my friend, for things are never as bad as they seem. So calm down, stop fearing, and start thinking. Take a deep breath, and start taking action.
Continue reading about The Conficker Syndrome, Salvationware, And The Real Matrix
Some time ago, I discovered yet another article praising the “single-tasking” mode of the human brain. Once more, an artificial parallel to programming is drawn, and the inherent losses of context switching in multithreaded software.
As if the human brain was anywhere close in function to a computer!
Usually, I’d just smile and move on to more [...]
