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June 29, 2008 @ 3:20 pm by Samir Bharadwaj
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If you think I’m a lazy delinquent blog writer, you have no idea how delinquent I’ve been as a blog administrator. Web site software updates are really an essential activity for the smooth functioning of the site, and for security reasons. Any software, open source content management scripts in particular, are constantly issuing upgrades for both improved functionality and improved security. WordPress, which runs this site, is no different. Until today, however, I hadn’t upgraded my WordPress version in many months.
There were enough good reasons to not upgrade software, even beyond laziness, of course.
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June 9, 2008 @ 5:10 pm by Samir Bharadwaj
Do you still use Windows 98? Don’t be embarrassed, I still use a trusty Win98SE install on one of my systems and I have no intention of changing it anytime soon.
The issue of
Windows 98 as a legacy system came up recently when there was report on
BlenderNation about a
new patch for the latest Blender release which restored its compatibility with Windows 98. There were a few
wise ones who saw it for what it was, another extra bit to make an open source piece of software compatible with a larger range of platforms, but the majority of the adolescents complained and gibed at all the
losers who were still using the old piece of rubbish that is
Windows 98 … after all EVEN Microsoft doesn’t support it anymore. Pff! The remaining rabble complained about why the entire world uses Windows at all when
Ubuntu Linux is there to save all our souls.
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