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Thursday, March 14, 2002

via Apple OS X Downloads: "SpamKiller is a little utility that will help keep Spam Harvesting Spiders from grabbing your email address off of your website. No, I'm not joking this actually works." [Radio X Neophyte] 9:33:27 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Want to lower virus vulnerability? Diversify your software.... OS Diversity Reduces Viruses' Effectiveness. Even Bill Gates is getting spooked about the problems that Microsoft has with security issues. I would suggest that the problem is not the result of incompetent or reckless programmers, or even of a corporate culture that values features over stability or security. No, the problem is market share. Microsoft has far too much of it. [osOpinion] [Mac Net Journal] 9:31:33 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

BBC.  Mira, Microsoft's new portable digital screen/tablet technology that connects to a hub PC, will be "out by Christmas" for around $500.  This is how Microsoft plans to soak up excess compute cycles on today's fast PCs:  use XP profiles to allow everyone in the home to have a digital screen/tablet that connects to a hub PC.  The key is multiple simultaneous users on the same hub for mail, multimedia, and browsing. I suspect the vision is that there will eventually be a hub PC (HomeStation) you can put into a closet.  Base stations to recharge the tablets for each user.  Connections to roaming wireless networks for remote access to the home hub.  Convergence with personal storage device technology to add dozens of Gb of portable storage for local playback of multimedia.  Convergence with wireless phone technology so that you could use your hub's contact manager for easy communications management.  Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 8:44:49 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

software-related employment. Internet News: For the third consecutive year, Boulder, Colo., has been ranked by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as the top metropolitan area for software-related employment. The second leading area was San Jose, Calif., followed by San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Seattle. [internetnews.com: Top News] [Jeff's Radio Weblog] 8:44:17 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Fast Music Can Lead to Dangerous Driving. LONDON (Reuters) - Drivers who listen to fast-tempo music on the road are more likely to have accidents, a science magazine said on Wednesday. [Yahoo! News - Most-emailed Content] Live fast, die young. Could it also be that fast music listeners are usually young and young people have a highway death rate? 7:27:23 AM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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