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Beware of "free" software download scams

I am a big fan of a number of Open Source software projects, including Filezilla, Azureus, Audacity, Firefox and others. These projects are essentially staffed by volunteers, collaboratively producing software of general utility and sharing it with everyone, for free. Some reliable software is not free, for instance the POS System, you can check out […]

My take on the Internet, ca. 1994

Here’s something I found recently: from my work notebook in 1994, a page where I was explaining to a consultant colleague what the Internet was:

Lots of interesting things here:

Correctly identified Cisco as a key player Mosaic is the browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla didn’t exist yet) Comparative diagrams of the Internet/WWW […]

Weird spam

The kings of junk e-mail are trying new ways to get around spam filters. I received one recently that was weirdly poetic, apparently using some kind of grammar-aware automatic sentence generator. Follow the link to read it, and enjoy…

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