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The Power of Linux: Only 5 hours to connect to a VPN!

At work today one of our guys had to connect to a client via some Cisco VPN.He runs Linux. Mandrake I think. Another one of our guys runs Debian, and another Ubuntu.Today it took the Mandrake user (who knows what he is doing as a programmer and can get around *nix pretty well) only 5 [...]

Linux isn’t there yet

The concept of Linux is great. I love it. It pretty much propelled the open source community into the mainstream and some great software has came out of it. OS X wouldn’t be as good if it wasn’t for Linux, because many tools have gone both ways.
However, asides for embedded systems, servers, sysadmins, researchers [...]

My least favorite anti-mac arguement: They are expensive

You know what really grinds my gears? People saying that a Mac is significantly more expensive than a PC.
It’s simply untrue. If you try to configure a PC from any major vendor with a similar set of options and software, then it is almost always the same price as the Mac. I actually feel the [...]

I love/hate open source software

I have a true love/hate relationship with open-sourced software.
First of all, it is written by programmers. All software is, but generally the entire team of open source software is written by programmers. The programmer think this is the best thing in the world because then there are no business people (suits), marketing people, accountants, [...]