The other day I said I noticed the root DNS attack.  Turns out that was just a coincidence.  There happened to be a RoadRunner DNS outage at the same time as the DDoS on the root nameservers. 

I saw a similar RoadRunner outage this morning.  Overall I've been happy with RoadRunner, but there are occasional problems.  (A friend of mine used to have a T1 to his house.  That thing was rock solid.  Never a problem.)

4:50:28 PM   

Technology Review.  David Weinberger.  Palladium overview.  Yikes.  Talk about a way to fork the PC market and drive sales of alternative platforms.  If this goes forward, I suspect that in ten years we will have 40% of PC's running Palladium from MS, 20% non Palladium Windows PCs, 20% running a Windows-like Linux, and 20% Macs.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

What a neat observation: Palladium will "fork" the PC market.  Microsoft is not Apple.  Microsoft (along with Intel and the OEMs they have under their thumbs) doesn't own the PC platform and can't make unilateral roadmap decisions.

My question: will this split be along business vs. consumer lines?  I think CIOs want Palladium.  Consumers won't, assuming they can discover the truth about it.  Will the 40% Palladium number, above, be mostly business PCs?

The Technology Review story is awesome.  It's central theme is that we should all be scared of Palladium.  That's the real story, and responsible news organizations should see that and follow suit.

4:11:39 PM