This is a nice article by Eric Raymond. The hacker spirit has always intrigued me since I wrote my first moon landing simulation program for a Wang programmable desktop calculator, using a graphite pencil to mark Hollerith...
Again, I experienced problems with Gantt-chart based project planning tools in today’s IT projects. They do not scale, they are not agile, they cost a lot of time doing maintenance of the project plan and they...
What did I say yesterday? I wanted a virtual Windows under Mac OS X? That was yesterday. One day later…...
The stock of Apple Computer, Inc. rose 6% today after Apple announced that Windows would now run on the new Intel-based Mac computers, too. What a fuss!
When I want to buy a cool computer, I buy...
ZDNet reports that open source projects have a low bug rate and fix their bugs quite fast. I know that because I am part of a quite disciplined open source community!...
Look at this marvellous piece of art! It is a difference engine built from a *whole lot* of LEGO pieces. Way cool thing. Must be fun to listen to it. 🙂 Reminds me of the Artihmeum, the fascinating...