Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
Software Wars gets updated — barely — by the end of the year, technically fulfilling my promise of “two or three updates per year.”
I’ll let the changes mostly speak for themselves, but I wanted to bring up just a couple things…
Of the many (dozens!) comments I got over the summer when the site got […]
I’ve gotten dozens of emails over the past couple days about The Software Wars Map — all of it positive. Many people had suggestions, some had criticisms of a sort, but it was all positive — except for one, single message. I’ve included it below.
I’m going to pull out the suggestions from the other emails […]
I took a vacatation on Thursday to go to a special charity screening of Serenity. My wife was coordinating the activities of the Raleigh venue, so I was gone from early afternoon till late in the evening. Right before bed, I figured I’d check my email — and I found that I’d gotten dozens of […]
I put up my Software Wars Map way back in January, and it pretty much just sat there. In late May, for some reason, I suddenly started getting a several thousand hits per day from StumbleUpon, which is pretty amazing considering my site previously was getting only about 30-50 hits per day, mainly to my […]
A few days ago, I complained about the lack of an updated Software Wars map. I didn’t think I could do it; or, it didn’t even occur to me to do it. I had originally submitted the question as an “Ask Slashdot” question, hoping some able /. reader would decide to make one. The submission […]
Software Wars hasn’t been updated in well over two years. Since then, many things have happened: Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice 2.0 (with Base), PHP 5, MySQL 5, Apache2, and more — especially Novell’s Openxchange Server. The map has no mentions of Fedora, Ubuntu or even Google. In fact, serveral whole new fronts in the War are […]
