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Day two of The Pirate Bay Trial: lessons and other stuff

Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 18, 2009

Day two of the TBP is on the books and the big news of the day: 50% of the charges where dropped. Although that may a headline, there is more substance on the sidelines. For example, the comments on twitter are hilarious, smart and interesting. Unfortunately I didn’t flag them or save them, however if [...]

Know your customers: Microsoft thinks is still 1999

Posted by: Geries Handal on: January 13, 2009

Yesterday, I was looking for some information regarding the “Shrink Volume” Windows Vista utility, and found an article in Lifehacker on dual boot Vista and Windows 7. There in the Opinions section, is a post titled “In 2009, Microsoft Still Underestimates the Web”. The post is a constructive criticism, on Microsoft failure in distributing the [...]

History Repeats Itself: IBM, Microsoft, Google and …

Posted by: Geries Handal on: December 25, 2008

We will not have history lesson or fact listing of these three big companies, Wikipedia can serve this purpose. However, I’m here to point something out: Microsoft did it to IBM and Google is doing it (or did it) to Microsoft. Therefore somebody will do it to Google, yes it might be hard to imagine, [...]

Why you shouldn’t pay for music…

Posted by: Geries Handal on: October 21, 2008

.. software and movies.

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I will not mention too much about software, since I will be repeating part of what I mention in this post.
Given the fact that later this afternoon I’m planning to attend the REFORM OR REVOLUTION DEBATE (with The Pirate Bay people), it seems right for me express my opinion on why you [...]


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