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Archive for August 26th, 2005

26 Aug

Lazy is a compliment to programmers, dumb can be, too…

Joho the Blog posts “Lazy, dumb programmers that are nothing of the sort. Philip Lenssen explains why programmers should be lazy and dumb, although of course he doesn’t mean either of those terms in the way we usually do….

26 Aug

BSD Certification Roadmap

Slashdot notes BSD Certification Group Releases Roadmap. Jeremy C. Reed writes “The BSD Certification Group announced on Thursday the release of their certification program roadmap. This publication introduces the Group’s planned BSD system administrator certifications and the construction of the certification program. The press release is available, as well as the certification roadmap.”
I’ve been a [...]

26 Aug

FTPOnline registration

I attempted to create an account on the Fawcette Technical Publications online (FTPOnline.com) web site to get a link to pass on about a recent editorial in Visual Studio Magazine. It prompted for the usual email address, password twice routine. I used my usual password technique, a scrambling of the site with punctuation and letters. [...]

26 Aug

Can a Virtual Server be Vaporware?

Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley notes “Virtual Server 2005 R2 Due By Year-End. Microsoft is now going to release Virtual Server 2005 R2 (the product formerly known as Virtual Server 2005 Service Pack 1) before the end of this year.”
Interesting that since Microsoft has gone to naming their software after calendar years (Windows 95, [...]

26 Aug

Introductory Python course in Merrimack NH

At last night’s PySIG meeting at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, Kent Johnson announced that he’ll be teaching a course on Programming in Python for beginning programmers for the Merrimack Schools Adult Ed program. At $120 for 10 nights of two hours each, it sounds like a bargain. Unfortunately, I’ll be teaching LAMP at the NHTI [...]

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