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The Motley Fool: “The software king’s embarrassing infection points to greater security issues.”

I took advantage of Radio’s offer for a free 30-day trial, and have enjoyed the system. While I’ve still got a lot to learn, I can see that it will supply my needs for some time to come, so I paid up today.

Wired News reports: Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers “Internet users are mystified by a tricky browser add-on that installs itself without permission and defies attempts to remove it. Some are calling the program the most insidious thing on the Web.” By Michelle Delio. Slashdot follows up World’s Most Annoying IE Toolbar. I still think this is [...]

Saw a SlashDot posting for The Tao of Programming. A printed copy of the book has an honored place on the bookshelf.

Son Steve, who’s earning internship credits from NHTI working on connecting his dad’s company to the Internet, spent a couple hours this weekend swapping out the cable’s older LinkSys router to be used for the new DSL drop, and swapping in LinkSys’ new WRT64G 802.11g router/WAP combo box. After a few false starts, we were [...]

With phrases like “it’s become clear that this one size fits all productization of open source technologes no longer addresses these markets effectively.” and “As we worked on Red Hat Linux 8.0 we realized that Red Hat Linux’s lifecycle no longer made much sense” I’m afraid this response from Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat may [...]

Robert X. Cringely, the person not the trademark, reports that SBC is considering following up on a patent which claims to be the original concept of having a static element linked to dynamic content. Um, I suppose that isn’t explcitly what a hyperlink is, but I can’t believe there isn’t prior art…

Microsoft fails Slammer’s security test. Internal memos show that the software giant hadn’t patched its own network against the Slammer worm, causing many of its services to fail. [CNET News.com]

MacWhispers: Apple’s Microsoft Word Killer. There may be some truth to this; one of my sources has revealed that Keynote is only one in a line of apps. [Hack the Planet]

Red Hat intros 12 month only support on ‘consumer’ OSes. Surely not a ’switch to Advanced Server’ stick, people? [The Register]