hackbash

This is sort of the second half to the earlier Microsoft post, where I was rambling on about people running lightweight operating systems on lightweight computers, and only requiring lightweight applications delivered through a browser.
I’m reminded of the Network Computer, or NC, something that a consortium of manufacturers and the database company Oracle tried to [...]

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We weren’t quite sure how to take mrsnakeface’s comment on my terms and conditions post (precious content?), but it made me ask myself a couple of questions:
1) Is this an angry website?
That’s not the intention. Perhaps Charlie and I just have a lot of pent-up rage? “Hackbash” was coined with a gathering of journalists in [...]

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Just the other day I was singing the praises of the humble hyperlink, but today I’m reminded that perhaps not everyone gets it.
For example, I’m breaking the Top Gear website’s terms and conditions by including a link to them in this sentence. Why? Because they prohibit third-parties from linking to any part of the site [...]

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