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Archive for February 21st, 2006

21 Feb

Are there no safe attachments?

Over at Ars Technica, Eric Bangeman points out a Safari vulnerability worth taking note of. “The widely reported Trojan horse for Mac OS X may be a dud. However, a security flaw in Apple’s Safari browser is something to be concerned about.” It looks like Apple made the poor decision of depending on the [...]

21 Feb

Oracle, MySQL, Interbase, Firebird, Ashton-Tate and XENIX, oh my!

I’ll try to put together a more comprehensive post later, but wanted to log a series of links I want to revisit. This is a WeB Log after all:
Firebird News: MySQL to adopt Firebird Architecture
http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=129
Database Journal: “Oracle’s purchase of InnoDB, their release of Oracle Express, and the effect on MySQL” 9 Nov 2005, By Ian [...]

21 Feb

Dan Bricklin: When The Long Tail Wags The Dog

At Dan Bricklin’s Log: Essay about the Long Tail and general purpose tools. “For months and months I’ve been wanting to write an essay about some thoughts on the Long Tail. I’ve finally had the time. (The material was part of the talk I gave for TTI/Vanguard and I had time on the plane to [...]

21 Feb

Microsoft facing more antitrust actions?

Computerworld News notes Microsoft faces another antitrust suit. “A California computer services and hardware retailer last week filed a federal civil suit accusing Microsoft Corp. of continuing to violate antitrust laws.”

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