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Ted's Radio Weblog
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Police Subdue a Tiger in Harlem Apartment (Oct 05 2003 23:16 GMT) - Police Subdue a Tiger in Harlem Apartment. "A police sniper rappelled down the side of a Harlem apartment building on Saturday and fired tranquilizer darts through a fifth-floor window to subdue a 350-pound Bengal tiger." By Alan Feuer and Jason George. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Only in New York. |
SHITHAPPENS
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CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (Oct 05 2003 23:14 GMT) - How the Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk to Security. CCIA warned of the security dangers posed by software monopolies during the US antitrust proceeding against Microsoft in the mid and late 1990’s. We later urged the European Union to take measures to avoid a software “monoculture” |
Educated Guesswork
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Triathlon coverage sure is terrible (Oct 05 2003 23:12 GMT) - Just caught the coverage of the Escape from Alcatraz on TV. It was ghastly in the usual ways: ignorant, cliche-ridden commentary, coverage of slow age groupers with special stories (disabled, cancer survivor, etc.), filming that makes it impossible to really... |
News by CodingTheWeb.com
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Father of Ctrl-Alt-Del (Oct 05 2003 23:10 GMT) - An interesting article about the guy who "invented" the use of the ctrl-alt-del keystroke sequence that has become a familiar part of using any Windows OS. His name is David J. Bradley, and the article describes him as a modest guy who just happened to play a big part in the evolution of the PC. (Meryl) |
News by CodingTheWeb.com
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Father of Ctrl-Alt-Del (Oct 05 2003 23:10 GMT) - An interesting article about the guy who "invented" the use of the ctrl-alt-del keystroke sequence that has become a familiar part of using any Windows OS. His name is David J. Bradley, and the article describes him as a modest guy who just happened to play a big part in the evolution of the PC. (Meryl) |
News by CodingTheWeb.com
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Father of Ctrl-Alt-Del (Oct 05 2003 23:10 GMT) - An interesting article about the guy who "invented" the use of the ctrl-alt-del keystroke sequence that has become a familiar part of using any Windows OS. His name is David J. Bradley, and the article describes him as a modest guy who just happened to play a big part in the evolution of the PC. (Meryl) |
Jeff's Thoughts
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Sun to Port Solaris 64bit to AMD Opteron? (Oct 05 2003 23:10 GMT) - Makes sense. I don't think that this is the answer for all of Sun's current problems, but it sure is a step in the right direction. I would love to see Sun continue to be the standard that most Unix platforms measure themselves against. [OSNews]http://www. |
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