Monthly Archives: June 2008

Why Time Machine is more than rsync with a pretty face

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Guillaume Laurent

When Time Machine appeared on OS X, it was met with a collective shrug among the Linux community : “It’s just a good-looking backup system, anyone can do the same with a cron/bash/rsync”. This is wrong and here’s why, in … Continue reading →

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iPhone vs. the Androids – OS/X vs. Linux redux ?

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Guillaume Laurent

Right now the only serious competition the iPhone has is Google’s android platform. As with desktop OSes, what makes the winner is the available applications. Well, while the echoes from the iphone developers are, shall we say, rather positive, it seems the … Continue reading →

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Two things you discover once you’ve left

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Guillaume Laurent

Two things I’ve come to realize after leaving the Linux community : it’s actually very small if you left out of disillusion, you’re not alone The guy’s spot-on almost every time. In particular, his rants on how to write a … Continue reading →

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CDs as a luxury product ?

Posted on June 21, 2008 by Guillaume Laurent

Despite the many predictions that CDs will soon disappear and be replaced by fully digital distribution, I’ve always thought that they would rather be displaced toward a “high-end product” niche. That is, mp3 is for the music you just like … Continue reading →

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