24. May, 2003 - Geek out!
- I’ve got pictures from last night’s Saints game, but haven’t gotten around to sucking them into the computer yet. It was fun. The Saints won. I’ll probalby do all the pictures from this weekend at once on Monday.
- Microsoft Documents to be Shredded in Utah. The documents from the Caldera v. Microsoft case are being shredded. Sun got copies of some for their lawsuit, but most of them will be turn into toilet paper before the ink will be dry on the new deal SCO (formerly Caldera) and Microsoft signed.
- SCO official defends Linux sales after suit was filed. The reason is that while they may have distributed some of their own code with a GPL copyright on it, they weren’t the ones to put the copyright on the code they say was stolen, so they can still sue others who redistributed it.
- BusinessWeek asks Will This Be the Summer of Mac? and thinks the answer is yes. The reasons? New chips from IBM, a new version of Quark, and music sales. The chips and the new version of Quark are things I’ve heard rumbles about, and the music sales might boost Apple’s bottom line. But I’m still not convinced it’s going to add up to any big boost for Apple stock. They’ve found too many ways over the years to drive down their stock price in spite of good news.
- The UC Berkeley/Stanford Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC) Project looks awfully interesting. It’s a nice addition to the features I already want in a server, namely that when something does go wrong, it gets fixed quickly.
- Shocking New Jacket Hits Street: The No Contact Jacket for women delivers an 80,000 volt jolt to anyone grabbing the gal sporting one. It’s powered by a 9V battery. It needs to be armed before it charges up, and once armed, it
emits a crackling sound
. Also: it would be hard for police to arrest anyone wearing one.
Retail price should be around $1000. [boing boing]
- Mad cow case leaves an industry paralyzed in Canada. Bad news for beef. [strib]
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Last updated on Sat, 24 May 2003 11:57:07.