Today’s One-Liners for Imperial Windows and Savage Linux
Microsoft Windows promises immortality at the expense of your freedom to interact with an environment without boundaries; Linux reminds you of your mortality and dependency on other mortals as you interact with an environment so boundless (relatively speaking) it can be terrifying.
The command line provides a near-infinite realm of possibilities; the GUI window dramatically limits your choices while dramatically increasing ease of use.
‘Ease of use’ is great for the emperor in his palace but it is also Hellas on Earth for the prisoner and his high-tech prison.
And now for something completely different: links!
Yahoo!™ Pipes reminds sounds like BizTalk orchestrations for RSS.
This guy named Peter reports that Unison has an “advantage” over rsync, rsync and Samba can be used to together and more…
Yes, we are still waiting for the Windows Vista “Express” upgrade—well, not really waiting: several scary versions of Windows Vista are available to me via the W2 MSDN Universal subscription.