Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can’t be, either.

My favs:

• Bossfight - Milky Ways
• Teminite & Panda Eyes - Highscore
• Panda Eyes - Antipixel

From a private end user point of view yes. But in enterprises Windows and Office is successful. Lots of money is going to Microsoft here.

Most of my text files are from Unix/Linux systems, because I don’t work much on Windows. So Wordpad is more important than Notepad for me, because the latter one does not handle end-of-lines correctly.

No one says the devices are anti consumer, except for some that are intentionally made incompatible with common replacement parts (missing “apple logo”). The walled garden is.

Of course, but I can see and understand what is patched and can see if I’m affected or not. In the previous version I haven’t been affected for 500 days.

You mean when you update the kernel? No one updates init on BSDs. This is mostly a entire world upgrade. But I’d never reboot from cron. My servers run 100 days without a reboot on average. In most cases there is no reason to update world, only the packages.

Reboot? Since when does Linux need a reboot? I’ve been thinking about migrating from FreeBSD to Linux, but now I am confused.

Many popular things are crappy. It is not an ideology, unless you consider the scientists who invented the WWW to be some freaks.

Flash wasn’t really useful, because many people couldn’t display these websites. It was the exact opposite of WWW. WWW enabled people to use hypertext and provided accessibility.

It’s the market that controls the prices. Many shops won’t rise prices because they would lose customers, if many others don’t.

But after an agreed price rise, it’s a different situation. It takes more time to sell cheaper, because the shops want to pretend that stuff is expensive just a bit longer.

Just have some patience and try to avoid the expensive stuff, as much as you can for some time. The biggest risk for shops is that someone finds alternatives and actually never again buys the previous product. They’ll panic and prices will fall drastically.

Adobe has already proved they don’t understand web technologies when creating Flash.

I use LaTeX. I needed to learn a lot about it to use it, but it’s the only thing that can set letters, paragraphs and book structure properly.

93000 mails since 2008 are just 2,1 GB. I have an archive on my home server where I also host my main IMAP server. I just move them from the inbox to Archives.YEAR.

I used plain Kerberos. I stopped, because sometimes I don’t want to be logged in automatically. Privacy and multi-account systems get more difficult.

There are few people who are smarter than a compiler. And those who use “branchless coding” probably aren’t.

The method I use is same, but I wrote a script that makes snapshots, streams them locally and then rsync takes over and copies them over to my server at home.