By JortK on February 13, 2010
Apple recently made headlines here on TC for depriving an individual of 16 .com domain names that contained some of the company’s brand names, including MacBook and iPod. Microsoft saw that move and then played an even better hand: the company was granted no less than 23 .com domain names in one fell swoop earlier [...]
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By JortK on December 31, 2009
“I’m going to f—ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f—ing kill Google.” [Sydney Morning Herald] “Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…” [Watch at YouTube] “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property [...]
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By JortK on April 14, 2009
Posted in Pictures | Tagged chrome, google, logo, microsoft, windows
By JortK on December 30, 2008
Last week I was playing around with the computed columns feature in SQL Server from Microsoft. A computed column is computed from an expression that can use other columns in the same table. The expression can be a noncomputed column name, constant, function, and any combination of these connected by one or more operators. The [...]
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By JortK on July 26, 2008
Today when I had a look at the buglist of Ubuntu, I’ve noticed the first bug ever reported to the Ubuntu development team: Microsoft has a majority market share Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding [...]
Posted in Tech news | Tagged bug, linux, microsoft, os war, ubuntu