tags: Linux

Why do I kid myself? I feel like my Fate is pretty much sealed, yet I'd rather not accept it.

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2001

January

2001 Jan 17

Before I Lay Me Down to Sleep

More Calvin and Hobbes. Crackers and script-kiddies. More music. Princesses and unicorns.

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April

2001 Apr 4

Pfft… Just Like That

Money, love, family, and the Simpsons.

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2007

Now, granted, I’m no impartial observer. I’ve hated Windows since the 1998 iteration, and haven’t looked back. I used Linux as my primary OS from 1999 to 2002, then finally ended up buying an iBook and switching to Mac OS X (which was at version 10.1 at the time.) So I am confused by the outrage generated by drag-and-drop “installation” that is the method that Apple recommends to all developers. The article itself discusses the rationale for these guidelines, which I won’t regurgitate, but which I will refer to.

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October

2007 Oct 28

us vs them

Anil Dash objects to the subtle mockery that Apple throws towards Windows, and I do see his point. It’s yet another sign of “immaturity”, in the same vein of the shit-talking found in the Mac vc PC ads.

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2008

January

2008 Jan 31

technical merits of microkernels

After switching from Linux to Mac OS X and after playing around with Ruby a little bit, and getting a feel for the philosophies of Objective C and SmallTalk, I guess I'm coming around to Andrew Tanenbaum's thoughts about microkernels.

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February

2008 Feb 16

desktop linux

All sorts of theories have been proposed about why Linux has not taken a significant chunk of the market for desktop OSes. While there may be merit in some of the psychosocial economics presented, it ignores big, more concrete reasons why Linux hasn't seriously eroded Windows market share, and why even Mac OS X is outstripping it on the desktop front.

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