Posts by Alan Mac

'VPs shouldn't go publicly rogue'... XML co-author Tim Bray quits AWS after Amazon fires COVID-19 whistleblowers

Re: "XML"

XML has been surpassed by more efficient data formats these days, but it brought a platform independent data interchange format to the world maximising interoperability between systems when all the big players were pushing their own chronic proprietary formats. What have you given the world?

Redis does a Python, crushes 'offensive' master, slave code terms

Undisclosed

I really wish you'd posted that anonymously

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

Re: Section 3

"You will not, and will not allow any third party to ... (v) publish or provide any Software benchmark or comparison test results."

I'll do what I want with my computer thanks

LinkedIn mass hack reveals ... yup, you're all still crap at passwords

Re: Advice please

These password managers tend to be able to create the passwords for you as well:

http://keepass.info/features.html#lnkrandgen

China names the date for dark side moon landing

Space exploration is fascinating. I wish more countries did it.

Opera and Firefox downloads soar after IE alerts

Java Browser Exists

I haven't used it myself to see if it's "fully featured" but there is an open source Java browser called Lobo if you're interested: http://lobobrowser.org

The best netbook-friendly Linux distros

Nice article

I've been experimenting with a couple of distros recently on my eeepc so this article is quite useful to round up what's available and if they're worth trying.

Thanks