Sloppy thinking in good product

What in the world would make a manufacturer like D-Link produce a nice and affordable router/gateway/firewall/VPN piece of equipment like the DI-804HV, and not include support for configuration by means of SSH and/or HTTPS? This product is by no means “brand new” or the “latest …

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SuSE goes PowerEdge 750

After having hesitated for many months and years, I finally got my hands on a new Dell server waiting to be configured for SuSE Linux (SuSE 9.0 Professional). Although the sales person was dearly convinced it would work without any problems (“Oh yes, we know …

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Svar till “Öppen Källkod kan aldrig bli affärskritisk”

På CS/Debatt 9/3 2005 skriver Stefan Dahlgren (vd, Bea Systems) att “Öppen källkod kan aldrig bli affärskritisk” (sic). Sådana här uttalanden hjälper varken hans egen sak (vilket uppenbarligen går ut på att främja Bea Systems produkter) eller att förtydliga för människor vad “Öppen källkod” innebär. …

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My little Hasbro

Indeed.. My Little Pony – Butterfly Island, from Hasbro has to be the most braindead combination of ideas for a toy I’ve seen in a long time. Then again, the whole My Little Pony-series suffers from this. Yes.. if only I had a horse that …

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The Skype Hype

How cool is Skype? Well, considering that it’s one of those “ButOfCourse(tm)! Why didn’t I think of that?!” type things, it must mean it’s very cool. It’s something many software developers have thought about, but few have done anything about. Having played with it for …

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