Happy Friday the 13th! Here are some links for today:

• This Is What The Web Looked Like In 1994 A nostalgic look at the web 13 years ago. Somewhat depressing, altogether quite laughable. Now you can use browser emulators from that period to view current websites. A good study for those designing websites intended to degrade nicely in non-standard browsers. By the way, Geek with Laptop is a pretty slick blog; I just found it yesterday.
• The New Linux Distro – Are the Linux companies who have made “patent deals” with Microsoft really just letting Microsoft make money off Linux? Who is really benefiting here, Linux companies, the Linux community, or Redmond? A good quote about the importance of the community:
  

  These companies forgot one thing…the power is with the consumer. The power is in the community. Ubuntu realizes that…they’ve embraced the community and look what’s happened! The community holds the power to make or break…the power of spoken word cannot be underestimated.

• Mean Spirited Comments and Blogging – Good exposition on what to do when you run across nasty comments, as I did on Trolls.
• Running a Windows Partition in VMware – For Linux hackers who would rather not leave their comfortable environment to use Windows (and yes, the need does arise at times, sadly), here are directions on how to mount an existing Windows partition and run it in a VMware virtual machine.
• Call feature on Google Maps – Now Google will let you call any business number listed on Google Maps from your phone, without calling them directly. Google pays long-distance charges.EDIT: This has been discontinued.
• Controlling Jobs in Linux – Great tutorial on job management from the Linux consoleEDIT: Site is no longer active