Reply to an email from Robert Blum about getting Linux.

The interesting part here was: how companies would not be interested in Linux since it is "public domain"!

This is an email to a colleague who was interested in Linux. We were swapping notes on itand how to best obtain it.The interesting part of the email, is that I forwarded a lot of info that I collected on Linuxto him from various sources.

This is an email to Steve Hanson regarding the Unix User Newsletter.

Log of my early Linux installation and upgrades. Should be interesting for the digital archeology aspects of it.

In this page, you will find a good collection of links on UNIX history:

Is it just me, or did someone else notice?

Initially, after seeing "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone", and "The Fellowship of the Ring", I thought there are too many similarities between them to be coincidental.

After seeing "The Chamber of Secrets", and reading a bit about "The Prisoner of Azkaban", I saw "Lord of the Rings" trilogy again at home on DVD.

I thought that there was a lot of borrowing that J.K. Rowling did from J.R.R. Tolkien.

Let us see a list of similarities:

I recently upgraded one of the five machines at home from Mandrake 9.1 to Mandrake 10.0 Official Download. This machine is a sluggish Celeron 300 used by my daughter, Sarah.

The upgrade went fine, although it was slow (this machine is not the fastest thing around).