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Why I don't like Silverlight.
The short answer: because it comes from Microsoft and reeks of its aspirations of total domination monopoly. Because it excludes Linux even before it’s out. Because it doesn’t conform to Open Standards. The long answer: I recall only too well the web-hell of yesteryear when sites required Internet Explorer, when proprietary, temperamental Microsoft DHTML was […]
Coda
Stand Up!
Mason Sans ή αλλιώς το Χαος
Μετά από αρκετό καιρό αποφάσισα να κάνω κάποιες αισθητικές αλλαγές στο cosmix.org. Δεν είναι κάτι το ιδιαίτερο ώστε να αξίζει αναφορά εδώ, όμως παρατήρησα κάτι που με προβλημάτισε. Κοιτώντας στο Web για γραμματοσειρές πέτυχα την Mason Sans Greek Alternative. Τη γραμματοσειρά μπορείτε να τη δείτε στο νεο λογότυπο του cosmix.org. Ψάχνωντας λοιπόν τη βρήκα στο […]
Why I stopped using Skype. Kind of.
I was one of the early adopters of Skype, the, now ubiquitous voice over IP application/platform created by Niklas Zennström of Kazaa’s fame and now owned by eBay. But, truth be told I never really warmed up to it. You could say it was imposed on me when its simplicitly stood there laughing at my […]
So, where's the Fibre?
In 1994 one of the buzzwords you were bound to hear if you were even remotely interested in technology was the “Information Superhighway”. Of course, as a quasi-technical-turned-social term, it had a multi-level meaning, depending on who you were talking to. Laypeople would immediately infer a superfast, all-encompassing, ubiquitous network infrastructure that would allow them […]