9 month ago
deusx : Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Child Discovered In Word Code. - "Sources were unable to say how he got in there or whose child he might be, but he apparently had been living in the code in a feral state for a number of years."
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Rod Begbie : YouTube - Rabbit Rescue - Amy Sedaris and some bunnies do some top-notch pimping for Microsoft Office. #
deusx : YouTube - Rabbit Rescue - "Watch Amy Sedaris take care of business!"
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deusx : Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement: Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination - "It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies." Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
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deusx : Daring Fireball: Devil's Advocate - "What Yahoo needs is a Steve Jobs — someone who will ruthlessly focus the company on products that are better, more popular, and more profitable."
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10 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy - Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy: "Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says" hahaha... someone needs a tin foil hat!
deusx : Analyst says Microsoft's Yahoo bid is a ploy - MarketWatch - "Bid designed to keep Yahoo from deal with Amazon.com, report says." Now, there's a merger I wouldn't absolutely hate, given Amazon's developer resources
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10 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : A Microsoft secret plan for Yahoo's open source? - A Microsoft secret plan for Yahoo's open source?: now that's just funny... on multiple levels!
deusx : Interop News - Interop News - A Microsoft secret plan for Yahoo's open source? - "What an irony it will be if Microsoft ends up using Yahoo’s open source software platform as a stick to beat Google."
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10 month ago
deusx : Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - "Thank you for not quitting last Friday."
Jeremy Zawodny : Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid - Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's Company-Wide Memo Regarding the Microsoft Takeover Bid: somehow I missed this originally... damn that guy can be funny
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10 month ago
deusx : NCZOnline - Torn between two lovers - "Yahoo fell on some hard times but never lost her smile. She still wore her pretty purple dresses around town and acted as if nothing were wrong..."
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10 month ago
deusx : List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "This is a list of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation sorted by the year of purchase"
Rod Begbie : List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation - Wikipedia - I'll take "Companies that have died on the vine" for $400 please, Alex. [via] #
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10 month ago
deusx : Hixie's Natural Log: Mistakes, Sadness, Regret - "It might actually be quite an effective way of dramatically increasing the costs of entering or competing in the browser market. (This is what we call "anti-competitive", or "evil".)"
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10 month ago
Simon Willison : Legacy. - Legacy.. James Bennett has what I think is the most interesting analysis of the X-UA-Compatible header to date.
deusx : The B-List: Legacy. - "it stands to reason, if Microsoft is bending over backwards to keep its bread-and-butter corporate customers happy, that the IE team would suddenly get backwards-compatibility fever."
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10 month ago
deusx : Sam Ruby: Best Standards Support - "Accordingly, I’ve implemented the following in my .htaccess file"
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10 month ago
wearehugh : IE8 To Make Tender Chickens
deusx : IE8 To Make Tender Chickens - "Note: I wanted to make a crack in here about rebranding IE6 as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework but it wasn't working..."
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11 month ago
deusx : The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry - "Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Palm hate Asustek because the company can give us something they can't: A super cheap, flexible, powerful mobile computer."
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12 month ago
Rod Begbie : Review: Windows XP - Coding Sanity - "I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP" #
deusx : REVIEW: WINDOWS XP - "Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop."
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13 month ago
deusx : open...: Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - "The whole point about cloud computing is that it has to be effectively infinite - the more people want, the more they get. You can't do that with software that requires some kind of licensing payment, unless it's flat-fee."
Simon Willison : Proprietary Software Does Not Scale - Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.
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15 month ago
deusx : IE6 Form Tag Orphans by jpsykes - "Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won’t delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed."
wearehugh : IE6 Form Tag Orphans by jpsykes
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15 month ago
deusx : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - "I was still somehow brainwashed, though, as perhaps many people still are today, into believing that Word was the “serious” word-processor: the professional tool for anyone who did heavy lifting with language."
joshua : Steven Poole – Goodbye, cruel Word - nice rant on simplicity and task-appropriateness for tools
Rod Begbie : Steven Poole - Goodbye, cruel Word - "Many people agree that revision 5.1a, specifically, was the best version of Word that Microsoft has ever shipped, combining utility and minimalist elegance with reliability. Sadly for me ... I "upgraded" to Word 98, and somehow the magic was gone." [via] #
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17 month ago
deusx : Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords - What?
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18 month ago
43folders : YouTube - Microsoft Surface Parody - "Big-ass table"
deusx : YouTube - Microsoft Surface Parody - "We actually WANT a Surface Computer, but since we can't afford one, we thought it might be fun to make fun of it."
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18 month ago
deusx : A Patent Lie - New York Times - "As more and more lawsuits rock the industry, we should ask if software patents are stifling innovation. Bill Gates certainly thought so in 1991, even if he won’t admit it today."
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Four Words for Microsoft - Four Words for Microsoft: "Litigate or shut up."
deusx : ongoing · Four Words for Microsoft - "Litigate or shut up."
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21 month ago
wearehugh : "There is no public standard that applies to this" site:msdn2.microsoft.com - Google Search - the dark underbelly of the DOM, microsoft edition
deusx : "There is no public standard that applies to this" site:msdn2.microsoft.com - Google Search
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deusx : The Most Annoying Things About Windows Vista - Yahoo! News - "Here's our list of Vista features that just make us wonder, "What were they thinking?""
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22 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: The Calibration - '...racking my brains for what I actually do instead of just saying "I need Windows, so too bad about the raping."'
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