Microsoft takes on PDF [Slashdot]

Adding a Hard Drive... To Your DVD Player? [Slashdot]

Design Patterns [Slashdot]

SSL. I'm working on what's hopefully the last problem for PocketSOAP 1.4, which is related to SSL on PocketPC. The timeout support recently added uses select, so I was dismayed to read this post about problems with SSL and select. sigh. [Simon Fell]

uiweb.com: The ten reasons ease of use doesn't happen on engineering projects. In reviewing all the email I've received at this website, and the experiences I've had teaching and consulting, I've tried to catalog the different reasons why projects didn't result in easy to use designs. [Tomalak's Realm]

FBI Bugging Public Libraries [Slashdot]

Linus Explains his Patch Policy [Slashdot]