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Posted on entry Jim Baen, 1943-2006 ::: June 29, 2006, 05:28 PM:
Man, there have been a lot of his books on my nightstand over the years... Go in peace, Mr. Baen.
Posted on entry "Just because computers were a liberating force in the past doesn't mean they will be in the future." ::: May 05, 2006, 04:28 PM:
To second Greg: Pick a pair of keywords and pull a search with Google under IE and then the same pair with Yahoo under Firefox. YMMV, but it's indicative of the reality...
Posted on entry "Just because computers were a liberating force in the past doesn't mean they will be in the future." ::: May 05, 2006, 03:58 PM:
...and if someone does want to move the: The Equivalents List is getting better (non-exhaustive). Fedora Core 5 is almost ready for "Aunt Minnie", and certainly is if we 'support' her already on her Windows box.

Posted on entry "Just because computers were a liberating force in the past doesn't mean they will be in the future." ::: May 05, 2006, 02:37 PM:
Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice...

All live on the Win32 platform now; users are no longer constrained to Linux for Open Source software.

(I don't have to knowledge base to address the Mac world's situation in this case.)
Posted on entry Carry the Banner ::: January 19, 2006, 05:09 PM:
Fax sent to the California rep; thank you to Tim for that research and to Bill for the template to work from.
Posted on entry Robert Sheckley ::: December 09, 2005, 05:13 PM:
Sorely missed...
Looking through those old covers at his place brought back lots of fun memories.

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