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Thursday, April 1, 2004
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How to make quality PDF with LaTeX: "One of the things you might want to do when typesetting documents in LaTeX is produce a high-quality PDF for on-screen viewing or printing."
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Apple wins Best of Show at Bio-IT World: "Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday won a Best of Show award at Bio-IT World Conference + Expo, taking place this week in Boston, Mass. Apple won the award for its recently announced Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics."
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My April 1st column -- Comment()
Today appeared my net column on too much choice in the Linux world (in Finnish, Älä vaivaa päätäsi linuxeilla, onhan sinulla jo windows). In the column I refer to the recent book by Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice. Update: A reader commented the column and pointed to www.distrowatch.com. According to this site, there are 278 known Linux distributions. Update 2: The column is generating a lot of feedback. It seems that there may be 370 Linux distributions. Also, check out the article Number of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Users.
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No, OS X is like an Outlook virus for geeks: "[F]or an old UNIX geek this Mac is just so bloody intuitive. And since it's UNIX all the way, you can, if you want to, drop down to the lowest level. But you don't have to. That's the beauty of it. I have done twenty years of tweaking of computers. It's enough. I just want things to work - I don't have the time to tweak that crap anymore."
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A Better Way to Squelch Spam? "Recently proposed anti-spam sender authentication measures such as Yahoo!'s DomainKeys and Microsoft's Caller ID are unlikely to be effective spam deterrents because they are centralized solutions that chiefly benefit major ISPs and advertisers. The Camram (Campaign for real mail) project is an open-source "hybrid sender-pays" system designed to maintain decentralized operations while imposing a computational cost on spammers and leaving legitimate email users unhindered."
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