3rd November 2001 Archive

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MS snags crucial authentication, DRM opt-outs in DoJ settlement

You thought it was bad, already? Here's the small print

The DoJ's capitulation to Microsoft, described by the San Jose Mercury's Dan Gilmor as "[awarding] the hen house to the meanest fox in the woods", was as Dan says not unexpected. Microsoft might not be the natural barbecue companion for the Texas oilmen who make up the Bush Administration: but the decision to nullify the …

Software 3 Nov 2001, 00:42
The Sun doesn't shine on yacc

BEA bundles and the goodness of x86

Cherrystone delay highlights x86 v RISC War Sun drops bundle bombshell on BEA Sun has a hard fight ahead of it. Slowly but surely companies are recognising that x86 technology (in Xeon or AMD MP) form is available that matches or exceeds the performance of very high priced Sun hardware. For example, SPEC (www.spec.org) …

Letters 3 Nov 2001, 08:46
BOFHs to blame for LAN downtime after all

Guns don't kill people - routers do

Note: this email contains traces of irony, which may cause small children to choke. I have just read your article regarding the Top 10 reasons for LAN downtime. I personally think it could be modified to look like so below... 2nd line Support, resolving the below because of.... 1 Crap Network Team:-) Misconfigured routers: …

Letters 3 Nov 2001, 08:46
Zeus – not what the Doctor ordered?

Tux takes speed crown

Zeus rips platform to splatter Apache Zeus is a fast webserver, but not the fastest. The fastest, especially for static pages is Tux. See the results here Dennis Voss Subject: Apache vs Zeus It's all very well to compare the two in performance, but what about price? It's almost sick how much Zeus costs. With the …

Letters 3 Nov 2001, 08:46
Bugger Hastings

Time waits for Norman

UK govt to turn Hastings into 'e-city' Kieren, "it is a nightmare to get to", surely that's the point, why should we be "getting anywhere" when we could work from where we are? Strangely, Hastings was in the first round of towns to have ADSL so perhaps the Government is pulling a fast one and will claim this as a policy …

Letters 3 Nov 2001, 08:46
‘Pimply Assed’ programmer's girlfriend demands T-shirt

There are ways and there are ways

GNOME version 2.0 officially 'not of use to anyone' There's no place like GNOME FoTW Poser: Are binary executables eligible? A month or so ago we ran a tongue-in-cheek article suggesting GNOME give up on the desktop and for the sake of unity focus on one desktop and concentrate on writing great apps. Of which there are many …

Letters 3 Nov 2001, 08:46
Red Hat redemption

Harry Homeowner harrows Dell Hell

I had to abandon my abysmal Red Hat 7.2 installation on my Dell Dimension to follow a few other stories, but I couldn't let it go down as a defeat. So Friday after work I rooted through the 300+ e-mails I've received with suggestions for getting it done. I've been contacted by Red Hat staff and by Dell staff, and by hundreds of …

Software 3 Nov 2001, 11:42
Conspiracy Theory? We say bollocks

And you can quote us on that

Readers may recall a recent piece we ran on net conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on the World Trade Center. One of the most tiresome was a rendering of the flight number (Q33NY) of one of the hijacked planes in Wingdings: Scary stuff. The fact that Q33NY was not in fact the flight number of any of the …

Bootnotes 3 Nov 2001, 13:44
In Jedi We Trust

Letters It's the future

Jedi Knights achieve official recognition as a religion hi there I am emailing you from the England. This religion is now official within the UK. I know that other countries followed suit and also signed this on their census forms worldwide. I can only extend my hand to these people in an act of fellowship. People seem to …

Letters 3 Nov 2001, 20:53