If you’re tracking Steve Gilmor’s postings, his address has moved: As I was saying. “The last time I posted, some four months ago, it was to my blog over on eWEEK.com. Podcasting was a gleam in Adam Curry’s eye, Scoble had read 8,248 fewer posts, and John Dvorak was just months away from being totally [...]
Get the Facts on Microsoft Benchmarks. “Now that Steve Ballmer and company have given you all the facts you need to compare Windows and Linux, allow me to add just one little tidbit.” Posted at Ed Foster’s Gripelog
ComputerWorld reports “Apple Computer yesterday posted Security Update 2004-10-27, which includes an updated version of Apple Remote Desktop v1.2.4 running on Mac OS X v10.3.” Article at http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,97020,00.html?nlid=MAC
The major fix seems to be for the Apple Remote Desktop Client. There’s also an update for QuickTime on the Windows platform - Check Help | Update on [...]
MySQL Version 4.1 Certified as Production-Ready. “MySQL announced the general availability of MySQL 4.1. Certified by the company as production-ready for large-scale enterprise deployment, this significant upgrade to the MySQL database server features advanced querying capabilities through subqueries, faster and more secure client-server communication, new installation and configuration tools, and support for international character sets [...]
Operating System Security, a Clear Winner.
Nicholas Petreley (The Register): Windows v Linux security: the real facts. “Reliance on a single metrics is a major feature of Microsoft’s Get the Facts campaign, and this is perhaps understandable if we consider what the campaign is. It is essentially a marketing-driven campaign intended to ‘get the message across’ [...]
Joel Speaks. Microsoft Listens.. “Joel Spolsky, as in the Joel of “Joel on Software” fame, recently chatted with Microsoft Watch about his now-infamous essay “How Microsoft Lost the API War,” as well as on lots of other items of interest to those in the Microsoft ecosystem.” Link from Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley
I’ve quoted [...]
Congratulations to Dan Bricklin, named as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum, joining a very elite group.
Want to bite your nails right until the last minute? This is the closest race I can recall, even more volatile than the disaster of 2000. Watch daily as the site updates with the most recent survey results, and converts them into the only units that matter: Electoral College votes. http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Yes, it’s that time of month again, the second Tuesday, when Microsoft releases their monthly list of patches. Quite a bunch this month, with several patches rated “Critical” with a threat of “Remote Code Execution” (”all your base belong to us.”) Get patching!. Microsoft releases fixes for seven ‘critical’ vulnerabilities. Windows users need to prepare [...]
A Month with a Mac: A Die-Hard PC User’s Perspective. A die-hard PC user’s perspective on Macs, by AndandTech. [OSNews]
You can’t find a more die-hard PC user than Anand Lal Shimpi, proprietor of the very popular hardware review website AnandTech. In the interests of fairness, Anand tried switching, and he was pretty impressed with what [...]
