Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Apple execs tout new midrange Power Mac G5. The new dual 1.8-GHz Power Mac joins a faster model already on the market. Apple also unveiled a 20-in. iMac and digital video programs optimized for the G5 chip. [Computerworld News] comment []2:05:22 AM

A Modest Proposal, or not. With spammers now installing backdoor mail-transfer agents and DDOS apparatus on thousands of compromised machines around the world, any hope of staunching spam at the source, by identifying their ISPs or IP addresses, is gone. Perhaps the only remaining technical solution is to disable the compromised hosts -- as well as those soon to be compromised. [Advogato] comment []1:56:58 AM

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