Perl. Control flow based on indentation is a novel idea, but doesn't really make sense to most users. Especially until the tab vs spaces problem is solved.

They're however not obligated to provide warranty.

Technically Windows 3.1 is just a shell on top of DOS.

A more or less complete computer at that form factor for $260 is quite neat actually.

C# is not related to C just because the name is similar.

It's actually worse than that. We have a number of systems where I am which was just recently upgraded to XP, including the main security system for the buildings. It ran on Windows 2000 up until a year ago or so.

We all have our good and our bad sides.

GNU/Linux with LXC and Btrfs will give you more or less the same isolation that you get with virtual machines, but with no overhead. The moving to new hardware is still somewhat lagging behind, but once Criu becomes useful I see no reason why that shouldn't be possible.

So what's your plan going forward? Will you use XP ten or twenty years from now? If not then you should start a migration now rather than later.

Anti virus is sort of an incomplete term. Trojans are much more popular these days, and despite its name an anti virus program can protect against them too. It's just software when it comes down to it.

There's a reason why Apple products don't say made in the USA, but rather that they are designed in the USA.

Hi. I don't know how much programming you used to do back when you were more closely related to the software field, but I'm going to assume that you used to have at least some experience with it. Do you still do any form of programming any more? Are there any specific programming languages, frameworks/libraries and tools that you prefer?

Why even bother with a cable. It's not impossible to crack wireless networks.

I'm sorry but you can't bundle a secret key in either source code or a binary, ship it to a user and somehow think that the user will be unable to extract it.

Can't you just ship the software and let the user provide the key?