Legend Netscape and Mozilla programmer Jamie Zawinski (aka JWZ) has humorously stated in his Law on Software Development that "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail . Those ...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2013/07/integrating-apache-openoffice-40-with.html
It should be an easy concept to grasp: LESS LINES OF CODE EXECUTE FASTER THAN MORE LINES OF CODE Yet, some people still need to see proof: 0. Win7 5x slower than XP http://channel9.msdn.com/...
Microsoft, like many firms -Google too-, suffers from the "NIH syndrome" (Not Invented Here). And it isn´t hard to imagine they aren´t too happy to see one of the key pieces of the modern ...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/10/zdnet-trolling-for-anti-javascript.html
After this FOXCONN CHINA PLANT CLOSED AFTER 2,000 RIOT http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-hon-hai-idUSBRE88N00L20120924 ...comes this secretly videotaped footage of a huge riot at o...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/09/foxconn-riots-and-some-exclusive.html
If you read the Whackypedia entry on "Butter FS" (Btrfs), you see: "BTRFS (B-TREE FILE SYSTEM, variously pronounced "Butter F S", "Butterfuss", "Better F S", or "B-tree F S" ) is a GPL -licens...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-anti-btrfs-fud-must-stop.html
I read this funny post "if programming languages were religions..." OVER HERE , and couldn' t help writing the rebuttal below with regards to its characterization of Java: Totally wrong on Java...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/09/java-is-based-on-reason-like-humanism.html
Thanks, Armstrong , for inspiring a generation with regards to #Moon & #space travel. ...fake or true tv footage, it really doesn´t matter... What a better way to pay homage to him tha...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/08/thanks-armstrong-for-inspiring.html
It´s really nice when you write a news story and someone writes back, months later, "from inside" -a big corp- saying "hey you hit the nail on the head". Photo courtesy (CC ) of Marco Rep...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/08/readers-feedback-says-sometimes-im-not.html
Below is my response to Dana Blakenhorn' s article titled "What Oracle is hiding" http://www.thestreet.com/story/11534615/1/what-oracle-is-hiding.html I' m not holding my breath waiting for h...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/05/dana-blakenhorn-joins-anti-oracle.html
In the Windows world, Java Web Start apps run "automagically". That is, if you install Java, THAT' S ALL THERE IS TO IT. The Sun/Oracle Java Runtime install takes care of INSTALLING THE J...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-run-jnlp-java-web-start-jws-apps.html
Since I´ve got an addictive personality, I´ve become addicted to Twitter as of late. Before that I was addicted to Facebook, and before that, to e-mail mailing lists (an addiction that is hard ...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2012/03/top-five-twitter-annoyances.html
When I read the Forbes article whose URL I include below, I was instantly reminded of a funny line from the Cohen Brothers film "Burn after Reading" when one of the characters says "you´re ...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2011/12/google-wallet-hate-and-gloating-in.html
A lawyer or lawyer wannabe from Harvard (sorry I haven´t had time to check his credentials) WRITES : "I’m also big on open spectrum and unlicensed wireless" I used the opportunity to wri...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2011/08/enough-with-wireless-its-gonna-get-us.html
The world´s MOST FAMOUS CIA ALUMNI and famous MASS MURDERER is apparently dead. Now, I´m awaiting for Obama´s "Mission accomplished" photo-op a la GWB, and surely a TOTAL RETREAT OF TROOP...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2011/05/boy-are-cia-alumni-hard-to-kill.html
Thanks to my colleague JohnO I get to read this FP article http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d5ef64e97c4ebf6%2C0 "The Serbian capital is home ...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2011/02/manufacturing-dissent.html
US: Election results augur new policy toward Latin America – Americas Forum http://www.hacer.org/latam/?p=6000 ----- "The November 2nd midterm elections that swept Republicans into power i...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/11/otto-reich-says-uncle-sam-will-use-its.html
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http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/10/nestor-kirchner-dies-statesman-has-left.html
It seems like it was only yesterday that a team of very creative people at a joint research facility in Cambridge, UK -operated at the time by Italian firm Olivetti and US database giant Oracle...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/07/forget-vnc-turbovnc-tightvnc-ultravnc.html
"Liar, liar, pants on fire !" http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/11/facebook-calacanis-is-lying/ It seems "serial entrepreneur" or "Netscape.com portal destroyer" as I´d call him, is in trouble ag...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/06/calacanis-pants-on-fire.html
ICANN´s Tina Dam, whom I had never seen before, was on CNN last Friday discussing the news story of native language domain names for Middle East languages.... and surprisingly, she said it´s ...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/05/icanns-tina-dam-was-big-deal.html
Reading the Aussie news wires comes this story about Stephen Hawking saying he surely believes there are Aliens, but that we shuldn't talk to them, as they're likely armed and dangerous. Well, n...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/04/stephen-hawking-says-there-are-aliens.html
Local right wing paper LA NACION has this headline "Iceland: from Miracle to cursed" "Three years ago the country was the world´s most developed; now it´s engulfed by economic crisis and natu...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/04/local-right-wing-paper-la-nacion-has.html
"In many ways, IBM succeeded. Eclipse became a more widespread and grass-rootsy movement than the top-down, closed-shop style of the JCP that alienated technology creatives. In pure market shar...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/04/gavin-clarke-is-utter-moron-once-again.html
This is the JJ Campanella the World+Dog now knows... It was about time that Hollywood recognized Juan José Campanella´s outstanding work which won many awards both locally and internationall...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/03/it-was-about-time-hollywood-recognized.html
Google has recently started informing users of Firefox 2.x that their browser will soon stop being supported for its web sites and web apps. And they recommend other browsers that people can upg...
http://geekgaucho.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-continues-ignoring-seamonkey-and.html