Ted Roche’s weblog

ESR to Shred SCO Claims? [Slashdot]

Forrester: Linux development can be more costly than using Microsoft software.
“The Microsoft-commissioned study estimated the cost of building custom
J2EE and .Net applications within large and medium-size organizations.”
“The price gap was primarily the result of the
difference between the prices of the BEA and Oracle software and those
of Visual Studio .Net and SQL Server.”

 What nonsense. So, it [...]

Hackers jump through holes in Microsoft patch.
Security experts are warning Microsoft customers of silent Internet
attacks that exploit a security flaw in the Internet Explorer Web
browser. [Computerworld News]

MIT-Stanford Venture Lab:
“The explosive uptake of blogging, RSS feeds, and self-maintained
collaborative web platforms such as wikis are already having powerful
revolutionary effects on news and content delivery.” [Scripting News]

Don’t Expect a System to Behave Uniformly.
“Q. My Windows Me operating system rarely shuts down properly, and it
freezes and crashes about once a week. I have heard that this problem
is common with Me; should I upgrade to a different system?” By J. D.
Biersdorfer.
It strikes me as sad that the New York Times computer advice column [...]