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The King Kong metaphor is a stretch at best, and fortunately isn’t taken to it’s ultimate conclusion – “Twas Beauty killed the beast” – but rather just dropped in this editor’s letter that introduces cover feature articles on Linux in this issue of InfoWorld: Linux as King Kong – Infoworld Staff. The Mydoom worm that [...]
Congratulations to Garrett Fitzgerald who blogs… Stop the world, I want to get off…. “My head is still spinning a bit. On Tuesday, a local employer was referred to me. I interviewed with him on Wednesday, and started work Thursday.
MailMovers is a local mailing house. During my interview, I found that the mail industry, [...]
Wired: “It appears their efforts to save Hubble, along with political pressure, may be paying off.” Link via Scripting News
An announcement by email this morning that KBAlertz is now available as an RSS feed by product (Visual FoxPro’s feed is here). Some curiousities in the feed: each item has a paragraph marker and advertisement for KBAlertz at the end of the item, but they don’t show up in Radio Userland. Also, the usual [...]
Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley says “It’s getting tougher and tougher to figure out exactly what Microsoft is doing with Internet Explorer (IE)” in Yet More IE Confusion.
I expect that outsourcing will be the hot topic of the early 90’s, with advocates claiming it is good business, and opponents claiming it is the destruction of America as we know it. I’m afraid they are both right. Wired has an article with a different perspective – from the outsourcers – and Cringely weighs [...]
Hysterical! Slashdot reports Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click The KnowledgeBase article says, in part:
The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the [...]
Ars Technica posts: Apple announces iBook repair program. “Apple today launched a repair program that will cover some iBooks which have suffered from the widespread logic board and display problems.” A little too late for this fellow, an Apple OS X to Linux switchback, who reports on OSDir “Having Bitten the Forbidden Fruit, it Bit [...]
Slashdot references a Seattle PI newspaper article concluding… Microsoft-Funded Linux Studies Benefit … Microsoft
I think the real crime here, and all computer companies do it, is not the sponsoring of the studies. It’s the setup: carefully crafting a comparison so it looks fair to those not carefully analyzing it, and then trumpeting the results as [...]
Bryan Bell: “I am constantly looking over my shoulder at Win-IE just to make sure the my sensible decisions are not being overturned by that freaking-lunatic of a browser.” [Scripting News]
