Below is a post I’ve had in my Drafts for a while now. Sadly, Microsoft is buying Mojang without the creative minds behind it. As any parent knows, MineCraft is white hot. What makes this game popular? The game is … Continue reading
Category Archives: Software
Sadly, on June 18th, 2014, FreeCode.com (fromerly Freshmeat.net) became static. This web site has been one of the most useful for system administrators. It aggregated software projects and provided a list of subsequent updates. Think of it a searchable RSS … Continue reading
If you remember, it was not that long ago that Steve Jobs categorically rejected Adobe Flash on the iDevice platform. Instead of Flash, Apple promoted H.264 for video. At the time, that seemed like a crazy idea. Adobe Flash has … Continue reading
Yesterday a wonderful thing happened – this first release of LibreOffice, version 3.3.0. This is a fork of the OpenOffice.Org project, which was recently acquired by Oracle from Sun. The LibreOffice code is released under the GPL version 3 software … Continue reading