Technology
Good people doing good things
Thoughts on Scott Hanselman's TEDx talk titled "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?"
Technology
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IPv6 for the remotely interested
I’ve known about IPv6 for the last two decades or so, but I’ve never gone beyond “an overengineered solution to the IPv4 address space problem”. IPv6 was even presented as “every atom could get its own IP address, no IP address shortages anymore”, but I didn’t know
What are the strong sides of Windows?
This was an answer I wrote years ago on Quora, now I moved it here.
Operating Systems
Why are x86 and x64 named as such?
This is the slightly edited version of my answer on Quora from 2019.
Operating Systems
Is Windows becoming more like Unix, or moving away from it?
This was my answer on Quora. I moved it here.
Operating Systems
What did Windows NT have when it came out that Unix hadn't?
This was my answer on Quora. I moved it here.