the dark side...

Saturday, April 24, 1999, at 12:18PM

By Eric Richardson

now i really feel like i've given into the dark side... I just installed Windows 95. Granted, it was only onto a virtual drive to work inside vmware (which is run from Linux), but... still...

Linux is great, and personally I can survive fine without any Windows apps, but sometimes there are RealMedia related apps that I should brush up on for Gospelcom stuff. Rather than dual-boot (ugh), it's easier to just run Windows in a window (sort of ironic, eh).

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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