And the writing is redundant, terrible and repetitive:

"lack and dearth of appropriate hardware drivers"

Lack _and_ dearth? That's pretty bad. Just put the thesaurus down and step away from the keyboard.

More RAM, yes, but also direct access to hardware resources, and predictable response times (a lot of the same reasons that made DOS a reasonable basis for embedded PC systems).

OTOH, DOS barely counted as an operating system.

There are problems with the XP zip handler - not on expand, but on create: it doesn't put files prefixed with a '.' into the archive. This is utterly disastrous if you are trying to archive an Eclipse workspace, for example. So a third party tool is essential for anything dev-related, I would argue.

7-Zip is a good tool, as you say. I also quite like zip/unzip on the Cygwin command line.

I haven't been able to read the article yet, but one thing which is definitely different between the US and UK plugs is that no US plug has a fuse in it.

Also, the US plugs are woefully inadequate for inflicting really serious injuries when stood on with bare feet.

Godel is mentioned on the second page of TFA.

Hungarian notation is bad because you are encoding type and scope information into the name, which makes it harder to change things later.

The fact that it is also one of the ugliest naming conventions is merely a secondary issue.

Exactly right - it worked for me. I read this when I was sixteen, and (with no irony intended) it changed my life.

Pace Neal Stephenson, I call GEB "The Geek's Illustrated Primer".

"No resumes were stolen."

Uh huh. So there's no possibility that the malefactors will log in with the stolen user IDs and passwords and collect resumes from people's accounts?

It depends on what you're doing with email and calendar. MS Office includes Outlook, after all, and if your office is using Outlook/Exchange as its email solution then you could hit a big problem in the transition.

OOo is a good replacement for the document preparation parts of Office, with a much less irritating UI than Office 2007, but email is a problem.

The thing that got me was that they seemed to place a premium on "comfort" keyboards, mentioning cushy keys as an advantage. "Cushy" to me means "squishy", which is the exact opposite of the crisp action that I (and apparently many others here) want from a keyboard.

However, the article was useful from one point of view - I now have a list of keyboards to avoid.