The Bangus Ultimatum

These are my links for June 28th from 15:25 to 22:00:

• Wallpapers, Skins, Winamp, ICQ, WindowBlinds … .: SKINBASE.org :. – nice stash of wallpapers
• A Seattle P-I Special Report – Bill Gates is finishing his day-to-day duties at Microsoft, more than 30 years after he formed it as a small partnership with his friend Paul Allen. The move begins a new era for Gates, Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he will focu
• Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant – For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
• Bill Gates Retirement Party: Ten Reasons Why Vista Isn’t That Bad – Although we agree that Vista could have used a bit more time shoved back into the silicon womb for some feature buffing and bug fixing, it's not nearly as bad as most people are making it out to be.
• Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks? – We asked a simple question: what Microsoft product could have used a little more polish before release? The answer astounded us. We would just like to thank Bill Gates for his honesty and his openness.
• Kirainet.com – A geek in Japan — Making good use of a little corner – Look at the girl in the picture, she is planting some tomatoes in little corner between two roads in the middle of Tokyo. Isn’t it amazing? She cares about that little place of land lost in Tokyo’s immensity, and what is more amazing is that she doesn

These are my links for June 23rd through June 28th:

• The Art of Unix Programming – nice programming book i'll never get to read in the short term
• BlueJ – Download – BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching and learning object-oriented programming.
• First look: OpenSUSE 11 out, offers best KDE 4 experience – Novell announced the official release of OpenSUSE 11 yesterday. It's the latest version of the community-driven Linux distribution and includes significant new features like the KDE 4 desktop environment and the PulseAudio sound server.
• Featured Download: OpenSUSE 11.0 Integrates Compiz into Linux Desktop – OpenSuse 11.0, the latest release of the Novell/AMD-sponsored Linux distribution, has hit the download servers.
• Banshee free/open music player for GNU/Linux turns 1.0 – Boing Boing – I'm awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free/open music player for GNU/Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago while I was still on the road.

These are my links for June 5th through June 23rd:

• » R.I.P. George Carlin » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog – Comedian George Carlin — first Saturday Night Live guest host, creator of the classic “Seven Dirty Words” routine [Warning: language not safe for work*] that started the F.C.C. vs. Pacifica Foundation case and comedic cataloguer of American excess,
• Coding Horror: Why Doesn’t Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? – i do give a crap. so it's likely that my next pc purchase will be another custom PC running linux
• Coding Horror: Douchebaggery – one reason i most probably will not buy a mac
• Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up – Chad Myers’ Blog – for consultants, but could be useful for lawyers as well
• Warren Ellis » Bending Mars – Is putting humans on Mars important? Yes. Humans need land to live on, and, in a dynamic environment, they need land to move to. Closed systems are bad because they remove options. A single planet is a closed system. And the thing about land is, as a hist

These are my links for May 31st through June 5th:

• Techgage – Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 – more info on the intel quad processor
• Coding Horror: Choosing Dual or Quad Core – I think there's a clear and substantial benefit for all computer users when there are two CPUs waiting to service requests, instead of just one. If nothing else, it lets you gracefully terminate an application that has gone haywire, consuming all availabl
• Phil National Bank vs CA : 121597 : June 29, 2001 : J. Quisumbing : Second Division – alright, so i'm just trying to reassure myself that based on the latest rulings of the SC, a mortgagee who proceeds upon the mortgage through extrajudicial foreclosure now waives his right to sue for the deficiency
• How To: Learn to Play an Instrument Online – Chances are at one point or another, you've either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the learning part.
• The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, PMOG – looks interesting. if only i had the time.