Ted Roche’s weblog

Scoble lists twelve reasons not to use Microsoft software. Not a comprehensive list, but a good start.

Yet another reason to avoid Digital Restriction Management: SysInternals is reporting that certain Sony music CDs install rootkits and that removing the rootkit disables the ability to play music CDs on your (Windows) computer.
These feeble restrictions surely won’t deter any serious piracy of the music, but only infringe on the abilities of consumers to rip [...]

The SANS Internet Storm Center notes that Apple has issued their monthly security update, a whopping 97 megabytes that, according the the Apple site, includes:
- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network and file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
- disc recording when creating and burning [...]