Michael Doornbos

Hey, pretty cool, I helped built some of the communication parts of this.

Well, they’ve done it. I sure feel better now that they are taking care of the spyware problems themselves. They’ve done such a *wonderful job* with security in the past, maybe I’ll let them hold on to the keys to my car, and my wallet, and my kids…

“I’d like to get a virus and give it to all of my friends”

You can do great whitehat testing with Whoppix

Infoworld reports version 5.0 to feature stored procedures, other enhancements

Unqualified code-monkey Garote submits his annotated version of Neal Stephenson’s In The Beginning Was The Command Line, updated to discuss UI design theory and fill in some of the gaps from the last five years. (And yes, he has been granted permission from Neal to do this.)

This is quite possibly the most clueless view I’ve ever seen in reference to Solaris 10. This Economics Times article actually says:

” We now have Solaris10 — Sun’s brand of Unix free of cost . This is beating Linux at its own game. Why would anybody go for Linux — paid or free — developed by a dispersed community, when a validated version of Unix is available free? “

Isn’t the dispersed community the main stong suit of Linux? Sun has it’s own interests in mind when developing a “validated version” (whatever that means). Linux developers have developing a good system in mind. I choose good system over satisfying Sun’s investors when it comes to my platform.

Rumors of a sub $500 iMac.

So the arrival of both IP Wireless and Flarion on the scene as purveyors of genuine high-speed packet-switched data to mobile users is forcing the phone business to re-think its priorities—especially in Europe.

eWEEK.com Special Report: Tech Outlook 2005

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