On comparing the temporary folders of two machines… Look at our Windows temp: I have 168 megabytes of temp files, some older than two months, around the time this PC was reinstalled. It looks like the graveyard for a favorite roguelike. Let’s check our Ubuntu temp files: Ubuntu clears your /tmp on boot, a fantastic [...]
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May 28th, 2010 
Wez In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And on the internets, information is cheap. Even more reason to watch what you say, and where you say it. You stand in the checkout line at the pharmacy, and someone starts to go through your basket. No worries, its part of the store’s [...]
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June 9th, 2009 Wez The laptop I work on runs Vista, my job requires it. By now I’ve built up a fairly high tolerance against it; sadly it’s a case of adapt or die. It also puts me in direct line of fire for experiencing the preternatural phenomenon known as MS, who released Vista service pack 2 yesterday. The [...]
