The Spirit of Discordance

Fernando Cassia is a computer geek, the nerd cowboy of the South American pampas. Living down in Buenos Aires, Argentina, his articles on software, hardware and the Net can be read on the pages of the UK based IT news site The Inquirer. Welcome to his progressive and humanist view of the world.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Integrating Apache OpenOffice 4.0 with GMail using MAPI

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Legend Netscape and Mozilla programmer Jamie Zawinski (aka JWZ) has  humorously stated in his Law on Software Development that " Ever...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Less is more

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It should be an easy concept to grasp: LESS LINES OF CODE EXECUTE FASTER THAN MORE LINES OF CODE Yet, some people still need to see proof...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

ZDNet trolling for anti-Javascript language, another ´anti-something´ Microsoft tech

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Microsoft, like many firms -Google too-, suffers from the "NIH syndrome" (Not Invented Here). And it isn´t hard to imagine the...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Foxconn riots - and some exclusive footage from India

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After this Foxconn China plant closed after 2,000 riot http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-hon-hai-idUSBRE88N00L20120924 ...co...

The anti-Btrfs FUD must stop...

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If you read the Whackypedia entry on "Butter FS" (Btrfs), you see: " Btrfs ( B-tree file system , variously pronounced ...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Java is based on reason, like Humanism. :)

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I read this funny post "if programming languages were religions..." over here , and couldn' t help writing the rebuttal below...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Thanks Armstrong for inspiring a generation...

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Thanks, Armstrong , for inspiring a generation with regards to #Moon & #space travel. ...fake or true tv footage, it really doesn´t...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Reader´s feedback says sometimes I´m not full of sh..

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It´s really nice when you write a news story and someone writes back, months later, "from inside" -a big corp- saying "hey yo...
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I started playing with computers at around age 10. But I really got hooked later, at the time of 1200 bps modems, Fidonet-style BBS networks, and x.25 packet switched connections. I live down in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and work writing assorted babbling for the UK based IT news site The Inquirer (theinquirer.net) I'm a fan of cross-plaform Java applications, PalmOS, and enjoy using and exploring linux distros. While I can dabble in php3, rexx, and "hello, world" kind of java development, I lack the focus and attention span for elaborate coding, that's why my hobby programming projects never got past a version 0.2. Writing and, perhaps, taking pictures, is what I really enjoy in life, next to good music and cinema. Microsoft, telco monopolies and perhaps laizes-faire capitalism advocates are my pet peeves. I joined the EFF back in 1995 and I'm currently a member of the Free Software Foundation. Mozilla and StarOffice / OpenOffice are my main software darlings.
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