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TheRegister on Windows XP vs Red Hat 7.2

Eugenia Loli 2001-10-30 Office 22 Comments

"If these OS's were cars, XP would be the Warner Brothers Special Edition minivan, and 7.2 would be a Yugo well on its way to becoming a KIA. Damn." This is a... pretty funny article regarding the experience of a TheRegister journalist, trying to compare both RedHat and WindowsXP. Our take: AFAIK, all he had to do was to decrease the PIO mode value of his CD-ROM in his computer's BIOS. After doing that, the Linux installation should have worked just fine.

OSNews Style Guide: How to Submit Articles to OSNews

David Adams 2001-10-12 Office No Comments

IMPORTANT: The following guide is now too old. Please use the new guide instead.

Guide to the specifics and recommendations regarding submitting stories to OSNews. OSNews averages more than 275,000 page views per day (Oct 2005 statitstics), making it one of the main tech news sites online. Submissions to OSNews will gladly be accepted providing they comply with the following style.

Engineering Lessons by Joel Spolsky

Eugenia Loli 2001-09-09 Office 5 Comments

For a good weekend reading, amateur and pro programmers can go to Joel On Software where Joel Spolsky gives a big number of extremely valuable hints about the process of engineering software. Joel Spolsky is one of the initiators of VBA, and led its implementation in Excel. He has recently founded his own company, Fog Creek Software. Anyone who wants to become a really good software engineer should pay a lot of attention to his essays, probably starting with The Joel Test.