InfoWorld: Top News reports Microsoft warns of file-trashing worm.
(InfoWorld) - “Microsoft has published a security advisory warning Windows users of a file-trashing worm that has been circulating via e-mail for several weeks. The worm, which is programmed to destroy a wide variety of files on the third day of every month, has been circulating since [...]
Rick Schummer at Shedding Some Light blogs Ken Levy is moving on… “You may have already read on Ken Levy’s blog how he is planning on taking a new position inside of Microsoft. Congratulations Ken, and godspeed on your new project.”
Best of luck, Ken!
“Credit and bank card numbers of many as 240,000 Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette subscribers were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said today.”
Follow the link to read how clever they were…
Over at Resigned to the Bittersweet Truth, Bill McGonigle posts Call To Action - Upgrading. “I spoke to Tim Burke, Director Emerging Technologies (including the Linux kernel and Fedora) at RedHat about the state of upgrading this past Tuesday at the GNHLUG meeting in Manchester…”
“So, I issue a challenge to all package maintainers out there [...]
Joho the Blog blogs Isenseuss. Here’s the talk David Isenberg gave at O’Reill eTel. It is, rather amazingly, a disquisition about freedom to connect, done in the style of dr. Seuss.’ …”
Here’s the first stanza, to encourage you to read on…
When Ed Whitacre, the head of AT&T, says,
“They’re not going to use my pipes for [...]
Slashdot post: A Statistical Review of 1 Billion Web Pages. chrisd writes “As part of a recent examination of the most popular html authoring techniques, my colleague Ian Hickson parsed through a billion web pages from the Google repository to find out what are the most popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. We [...]
Linux-Watch.com asks “What’s up with Novell’s new licensing?” with some interesting numbers on Novell and Red Hats subscription numbers.
New Hampshire House Representatives Sam A. Cataldo and Roy D. Maxfield have sponsored a bill to establish a study committee to determine if state agencies should have to consider Open Source alternatives when obtaining software. Should choice be mandatory? I think so. No business case should be presented claiming that alternatives have been considered [...]
Over at Linux-Watch.com, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asks: Is Wine really faster than Windows? and comes up with the right answer: It doesn’t really matter.
Now here’s a silly headline: OSNews purports that Linux Users May Be Violating Sarbanes-Oxley. A brief read of the article will tell you that a corporation is likely violating its obligations to its shareholders if it is failing to audit, track, monitor and closely examine the copyright, license and patent requirements of ALL of the [...]
