McAfee recently gave away free 6-month licenses to their anti virus suite as part of a Facebook promo. I got one too and have been using McAfee since then. I am not impressed with the software at all. The configuration UI takes way too long to load. There is no way to tell the software [...]

One of the most annoying dialogs in Windows XP is the one from Automatic Updates that tells you that updates are installed and a restart is needed  The annoying bit about this is that you cannot make it go away. The most you can do is ‘Restart later’. Do that and the the dialog jumps [...]

I saw a bunch of presentations on Erlang recently. The talks by Joe Armstrong, the inventor of the language, are quite lightweight on code content and the actual language itself and are interspersed with humor. He mostly talks about the central problems which Erlang is designed to solve – scalable, fault tolerant, shared nothing architecture [...]