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Friday, August 29, 2003
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} What is this? -- Comment()
I cleaned up my room at work today, preparing the move to the new office on Monday. I found all kinds of interesting but forgotten things. Can you guess what is the device in the following picture (it weights almost 10 kilograms and is almost a meter long):
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Sites Shut Down to Protest Software Patents: "There's many more sites as well, these were just the first I was alerted to, Feel free to note some more in comments. Looks like they're doing a good job of illustrating what could be lost soon." [Slashdot]
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How many crashes of Windows daily? "Thirty billion is the same as the estimated number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way."
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New column on SCO vs. Linux -- Comment()
I wrote a new column on the fight between SCO, IBM, and Linux (available in Finnish, Saippuaoopperaa parhaimmillaan: SCO vastaan Linux). It seems that there is currently so many controversial IT topics that you could write about them daily for a whole year.
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An Open Letter to Darl McBride: "Last I checked, companies demonstrated relevance by showing products, not press clippings."
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Moving to a new office -- Comment()
I'll move next monday to the neighbouring building, to start with a new group of experts. I'll support scientific computing with my new group: mathematical and statistical software, mathematical modeling, numerical methods, software development, parallelization, code optimization, and data analysis. After four years in the current group, it is good to have new challenges, but at the same time I'm a bit sad.
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