Jan-Piet Mens

What company might this ad be referring to?

The only "world-renowned" software company I know of in or around Redmond, does the "other" OS. Makes one wonder…

Photo: Tomas Rücker

I'm not familiar with Wixer, but in the German language the word, though spelled differently, is pronounced quite similarly.

It has, however, a very different meaning.

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The Microsoft Internet Explorer team sends Mozilla a congratulatory cake.

I find Mozilla really deserved it. Firefox 3 got better again!

The word of the day is: Activation, and it means

having to beg somebody for permission to use your own property.

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Dell have a really cool product: DRAC 5. This management card provides access to a machine if you can't otherwise reach it, by allowing, for example, a HTTPS connection to the card:

At this point, a systems administrator enters her credentials, and then has access to the management functions of the card. For example, take on the remote console, reboot or power off the machine, etc.

But: what do you do if you've forgotten the default password? Just click help, on the top right of the web page, and Dell kindly reminds you.

Another great step in securing your IT systems…

The best file manager in unix is called `bash`.