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SCO backs off Linux invoice plan (Oct 15 2003 23:20 GMT) - SCO Group backpedals on a plan to send invoices to prod corporate users into buying licenses to use Linux, an OS the company argues violates its Unix intellectual property. Linux planners: Who's afraid of SCO? |
ZDNet
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Patent fight shadows Microsoft lawsuit (Oct 15 2003 23:20 GMT) - A fight over an obscure content-protection patent could wind up relieving one of the software giant's biggest legal headaches, according to digital rights management company Macrovision. |
ZDNet
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Schools to build 'cyberwar' test bed (Oct 15 2003 23:20 GMT) - The National Science Foundation, working with the Department of Homeland Security taps two California universities to develop a digital model for the study of online attacks. |
ZDNet
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Labs set new Net speed record (Oct 15 2003 23:20 GMT) - CERN and Caltech say their 30-minute transmission of data from Geneva to California--the equivalent of transferring a DVD in seven seconds--has doubled the previous top speed. |
Electric Venom
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Inu 'oe a holoai'a (Oct 15 2003 23:18 GMT) - It's a regular mutual admiration society going on here at the Venomous Lanai. Kelley is the most vibrant, easy-going, fun-loving and gorgeous woman I've ever known. Not to mention she ROCKS at karaoke. Stole my thunder, she did - and got a standing ovation at the bar not once but twice. Twice! |
meryl's notes
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Book Recall (Oct 15 2003 23:18 GMT) - Yes, there is a recall on a book! I get the CPSC recalls via email and couldn't help but read this one. Candle and Soap Making For Dummies Instruction Book... |
Inspirational Technology
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Blacklists for comment spam (Oct 15 2003 23:18 GMT) - I've been thinking more about the comment spam situation and blacklists in particular. My initial reaction to the blacklist idea was negative because I thoroughly dislike the blacklist concept for email. It tends to bite too many innocent victims. However, the comment spam problem is different. Comment spam is posted... |
Incremental Blogger
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Tablet PC as a deck of cards (Oct 15 2003 23:17 GMT) - Sascha P. Corti uses his Tablet PC when interviewing Bill Gates at the Software Architect Forum: "For the Q&A session with Bill I was given a deck of cards containing the questions. My reaction: "Deck of cards? |
Variety.com - Music Front Reviews
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Nicholas Payton's Sonic Trance (Oct 15 2003 23:17 GMT) - Music Front Reviews: For most of his career, trumpeter Nicholas Payton has played things relatively close to the vest, walking softly over the traditions of his New Orleans hometown. On the first night of his current stand, however, Payton unveiled a new approach, a radical departure that skips multiple decades in skittering into the modern -- or even postmodern -- era. |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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laviedevantmoi : De l'Art Contemporain (Oct 15 2003 23:17 GMT) - Johnny Depp Benjamin Biolay Marc Raquil Bixente Lizarazu Keanu Reeves Kevin Costner Luis Figo Marc Lavoine Orlando Bloom Vincent Delerm Max (l'animateur de Fun Radio -non je n'écoute pas Fun Radio hin-) Eminem Ma prof d'histoire-géo >_Liste non-exhaustive |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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tchii : mauvaise routine (Oct 15 2003 23:17 GMT) - Je n'arrive pas à retenir les jours. Avec le stage le matin où je vais consciencieusement, les cours ou le travail à la BU l'après-midi , avec les colles cette semaine et le code à passer, entre le(s) soir(s) que je réserve à mon chéri et ceux où je dois faire acte de présence à la maison, les jours s'enchaînent, je ne vois plus personne. Les cours s'entassent malgré les heures passées à lire, à surligner, à réécrire - il me faudrait deux vies! |
Baseball Musings
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Posada Poke (Oct 15 2003 23:16 GMT) - Jorge Posada matches his Red Sox counter part with a one-out HR to left field. Like Giambi, it's his first HR of this post season. Yankees lead 6-4 in the bottom of the 5th.... |
Hit & Run
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The Diebold Machine (Oct 15 2003 23:16 GMT) - An article in The Independent looks at certain... anomalies... in the last midterm election. In certain states where new computerized voting machines were used, there were huge discrepancies between the pre-election polls and the outcomes, as well as quite a bit of apparent procedural sketchiness. It's important to take the appropriate sized grain of salt considering the source, but still... |
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