
January 19th, 2007 by

Baldy
Linus fans, get your diaries ready. The annual developers’ conference of the Debian Project is to be held on 17-23 June in Edinburgh. Debian is one of the largest volunteer-supported Linux distributions, with over 15,000 software packages available for it, which can be used on a total of 14 different computer architectures, ranging from IBM’s s390 mainframe and PowerPC through to the ARM processor at the other end. In the middle, of course, is the x86 architecture.
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January 19th, 2007 by

Baldy
It’s been about a year since I wrote a program. I’ve written snippets of code since then but have mostly focused on managing other developers. This is partly because, as a business owner, my spare time is scarce; I have many tasks to juggle. It’s also because programming stopped being fun for me. I have been fascinated with computers and telecom systems since I was a child, but in the past several years, coding has become more of a chore, in large part because the task of actually designing something useful is a small one compared with the much less interesting work that’s now required.
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January 19th, 2007 by

Baldy
The PC Decrapifier is designed to remove a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. Before running, the user may select exactly what software should be removed. Currently, it is targeted for use on most Dell machines; however it will theoretically run on anything that has the software listed below.
How it works
Simply download the file above. Open up the zip file and run the EXE. There is no installer necessary. If you have anti-virus software installed, it may complain about this program because it is written with a scripting language. These warnings can be safely ignored.
When it runs, it looks for any software that it knows how to remove and presents you with a dialog box:
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