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I’ve stumbled upon an interesting recording recently. I found a Bill Gates’ talk from 1989 on reddit . Being interesting in history of computing as I am, I couldn’t resist listening to this >90 minutes talk. Note, that 1989 is before famous Windows 3.0 (Windows 2.0 was in the market). MS worked with IBM on […]

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I’ve been evaluating a piece of software at work recently. Do get it up and running I needed to install Windows, database engine and the application which is itself quite heavy and takes ages to install.
Instead of staring at the installation progress bar all day long, I take a look at Dave Thomas’ Code Kata. […]

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Our precious little computers live in a dangerous word. Viruses, attacs, malicious software of different kind is out there. If user is not diligent in updating his system, antivirus, turning firewall on and guarding himself not to run a suspicious software sent by mail or downloaded from web, (s)he can hope that the computer will […]