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Friday, August 22, 2003
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Mastermind of Java contains an interview of James Gosling: "I do most of my engineering on my PowerBook [...] I find it dramatically more efficient than a desktop system because, on one hand, it has all the power of a full-blown UNIX desktop. On the other hand, I can take it with me because it has all of the laptop stuff. I can work on a airplane, at home, in a corner when I'm sitting in a boring meeting. And it's able to do not just email and browsing, it's got fully-functional, high-end software development tools."
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Love that OS! "As I see it, the only reason that Microsoft is still in business must be IT departments who promote Windows because they know they'd be out of their jobs immediately if they switched to a different, less faulty OS. Or it could also be that users think Windows behaviour is normal and every OS is like this. Which is not true. Believe me, I've wasted more time dealing with the security leaks, strange quirks and complicated setup procedures of Windows than with any other computer-related issue." [The Aardvark Speaks]
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Sobig is biggest virus of all: "The Sobig F Windows virus has set records for the amount of e-mail messages it infected." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Open Letter from SSC President to The SCO Group: "If SCO wants to bring a Linux user to court, Phil Hughes says SCO knows where to find us." [Linux Journal]
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This is getting weird -- Comment()
SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks: "IBM Corp. has been quietly stage-managing the open source community's response to The SCO Group Inc.'s $3 billion lawsuit over Big Blue's contributions to the Linux source code, SCO's Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride said in an interview at his company's SCO Forum user conference in Las Vegas this week." It is almost impossible to believe the stupidity of SCO executives. The fight between SCO and the rest of the world is becoming a IT soap opera with a plot too convoluted for anyone to follow.
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Slogan for Microsoft to get users to update their systems -- Comment()
Slashdot: "Where do you want to go today?!?! Federal prison?!?! If not, upgrade now!"
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