Archive for December, 2006

Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 Today

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 30 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Applications

Last May, PC World rated Internet Explorer 6 as one of the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. It was placed in the number 8 position in this list.

Internet Explorer started late in the web browser scene. Netscape was king in 1996 when the first version of Internet Explorer was released. By the end [...]

The World’s First Web Page

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 29 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: General

I’ve been using the Internet since 1987. At that time, there was no World Wide Web. All that we did was use e-mail, newsgroups, and download files from FTP servers hosted at universities and American missile bases.

I thought it was really cool to be able to send e-mail to another country without paying for it. [...]

Managing Linux with Webmin

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Applications

Linux can be a very complex operating system. New system administrators are often overwhelmed by the amount of information they need to know to maintain it.

Fortunately, there are tools to make your life easier as a sysadmin. One of these is Webmin from Jamie Cameron.
This is a web-based system administration tool for Linux. You [...]

Why Do People Write Open Source Software?

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 27 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Programming

Everyone living on their own realizes how important it is to make money. There are all sorts of expenses to deal with, i.e. rent, power, food, clothes, pizza for late night working, etc. Making money helps finance these things.

Writing software for money makes sense. People write shareware or retail software with the hopes of creating [...]

Social Ranking for Programmers

Posted by Johan Cyprich on 26 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Humour

In case you were wondering where your programming skills place you among other programmers, the chart below will show you. I don’t know who created this chart, but they forgot to include C++/CLI and machine language programming.

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