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The Macalope
Personal blog · macalope.comhardwareculture
The Macalope is a personal blog at macalope.com about hardware and culture. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Macalope posts on tech news: a rebuttal of a claim that Apple's Mountain Lion connects users to unprotected sites, and a chart of Windows 7 upgrade paths.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Full of sound and furry
What Hacker News says?
You can do an in-place upgrade from some versions of Vista to some versions of 7. See this official Microsoft chart for details: http://www.macalope.com/files/windows-upgrade-chart.png Note that 'Custom Install' means a clean install.
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on “Gruber: Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7”Submitted Short answer to a simple question as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMacaolope[1]'s going to have a nice week! First Gizmodo's review (saying ML is absolute garbage), now this: > [..] Let’s review the first paragraph of Anderson’s post: >>> Apple today proudly announces that if you buy their Mountain Lion OS, it will connect you to many unprotected sites, beyond your control, without your even knowing that you are so connected. > This simply isn’t true. [..] BTW, the Time article act…
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on “Apple's Crazy Attempt to Make Everyone Act Like American Teens Will Fail”Submitted Somewhere, something is wrong on the Internet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Still not thankful for ZDNet. as a story · 1 points
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