Serge van Ginderachter

Blue GNU has an interesting testimony on Microsoft Sales Tactics, a a conversation between two IT management types.
Both parties explicitly stated their belief that Microsoft’s sales people were attempting to oversell the company – intentionally.
Which is exactly my impression. Microsoft does not build software. At least, Microsoft campus – or wherever they try to make [...]

Het gaat hier vandaag als een lopend vuurtje rond. Microsoft gaat binnen een maand of 8 (dagprijs) onder meer de nieuwste versie van hun database server uitbrengen. Over die database server op zich nu geen kwaad woord, SQL Server is sinds pakweg versie 7 toch wel een van de betere en aangenamere producten uit de [...]

A Day in the Life of the Win32 Loader

(Originally, A Day in the Life of the Image Activator
as recounted to Stanley Rabinowitz on 7-Jan-1985 )
(Translated to Win32 by Matt Pietrek, August 2001)
CMD Prompt: Good morning sir! I am your command prompt today That was a
flawlessly executed logon. How may I help you today?
USER: Good morning [...]

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mssql
arf.
arf-arf-arf.
When the only problem you normally get, is a nail, you usually have enough with a hammer.
Or something like that.