It sounded better in my head. Honest.
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December 24th, 2006 ScottVista Content Protection
December 23rd, 2006 ScottAlso seen on A Fresh Cup, here is a spectacular cost analysis of Windows Vista content protection by Peter Gutmann. Looks like the cost of hardware is going to increase as a result of all the content protection that Microsoft is adding to Vista. Bad enough for those who plan on purchasing and using Vista, but it is even worse for those of us who will get burned even though we run an alternate operating system like Linux or OS X. I have no interest in running Vista, or working with their content protection nonsense. I certainly will not be installing Vista onto any of my machines.
Amazon EC2
December 23rd, 2006 ScottSaw this over on A Fresh Cup. Computer World has a really great article all about Amazon’s EC2 web service. For those who may not know, Amazon has created a virtual computing web service. They are offering virtual servers running Linux for rent the low price of $0.10 per hour plus $0.20 per GB or bandwidth consumed. Each virtual server that you create on their system acts as a dedicated server. If I was looking to start some sort of web business, I would definitely check this out.
A Fresh Cup
December 23rd, 2006 ScottI recently stumbled over an interesting new blog by Mike Gunderloy, the author of the Larkware blog. His new blog is titled A Fresh Cup, and it chronicles Mike’s journey to rid himself of Microsoft software in his personal and professional life. Considering that Larkware is one of the most popular blogs for Microsoft developer news, that is no mean feat. To get a good idea of where he currently is and where he is going, try reading this post.
I identify with Mike is writing about, because I have been struggling with the same sort of thoughts for many years. I have been working with Microsoft technology professionally since 1999 when I was working for a (now defunct) e-commerce startup. I started with classic ASP and SQL Server 7. Since then I picked skills in Visual Basic, .NET, C#, BizTalk and Dynamics AX. The funny thing is, I have not used any Microsoft software on my personal computer since 1995. Early in 1995, I switched to using OS/2 as the primary operating system on my personal computer. In 1998, when it had become painfully clear that IBM wasn’t going to support OS/2 anymore I switched to Linux. Since then my distribution of choice has changed, (currently it is Fedora Core) but I have been a user of Linux and open source software. Unfortunately, I have not been able to translate my love of open source into a viable living. (Living in an eddy on the river of technology like Ohio does not help either.)
For now, I am content to bide my time and continue on as a Microsoft developer by day, and an open source developer by night. I am not giving up on the dream just yet. Some day I will find a way to make my living with open source software. That is my goal.
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