Friday, August 22, 2003|
SQL Server Worm on the Loose. The worm, code-named Voyager Alpha Force, is roaming the Internet, trying to turn insecure database servers into launching pads for apps running out of FTP sites in the Philippines. [eWEEK Technology News] 4:33:38 PM  comment []
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An Open Letter to Darl McBride. - by Eric S. Raymond - Mr. McBride: Late yesterday I learned that you have charged that your company is the victim of an insidious conspiracy masterminded by IBM. You have urged the press and public to believe that the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation and Red Hat and Novell and various Linux enthusiasts are up in arms not because of beliefs or interests of their own, but because little gray men from Armonk have put them up ... [Linux.Com: NewsForge Reports] 4:28:29 PM comment []
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SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them
from the cry-me-a-river dept. SCO's McBride claims that IBM is stage-managing all the attacks and bad press, which would probably explain why I cleared this article with IBM World Headquarters before running it (not!). The publisher of Linux Journal invites SCO to sue. One of SCO's lawyers has this barely coherent interview where he spouts legal rubbish for a gullible reporter. There's an interview in German (machine translation) with SCO's execs. And finally, SCO is still hoping for a settlement with IBM. [Slashdot] 12:56:45 PM comment []
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SCO Says IBM is Beating Up on Them
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Blaster Behind the Blackout?. The latest rumor circulating on Bugtraq: Blaster caused last week's east coast blackout. Some are speculating that Blaster brought down the monitoring and control systems at a power-plant master terminal. Meanwhile, on the SoBig front, Gartner analysts are estimating that damages incurred by businesses from the e-mail worm could top $50 million. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] I certainly hope not. If this is true, it should serve as a wakeup call that MSFT cannot be everything to everybody. There is a real big difference between being the OS that runs the systems that control the power grids and the one that my kids use to send grandma email and play games. No one can convince me that there needs to be any simularities in such different systems. MSFT needs to be broken up into consumer and business oriented pieces rather than thinking that it can start with a single code base and cover everything from PDAs to multiprocessor minicomputers. As far as that goes, Linux needs the same approach. 11:15:40 AM comment []
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Yahoo restructures its RSS feedsStarting with my 5:00 PM last night, I'm getting much better feeds from Yahoo! groups. The feed now includes the subject/title, a bit of post, and the author's name. Much less guess work now about what may be included in a post. I'll definitely start monitoring more Yahoo!groups. 9:55:39 AM comment []
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Corel shareholders approve Vector acquisition. The Ottawa-based software maker will be acquired by venture capital firm Vector Capital, subject to final approval by a court in Ontario. [Computerworld News] 9:50:12 AM comment []
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system.verbs.builtins.radio.userInterface.editorBox changed on Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:55:05 GMT: Added support for Mozilla rich text editor. [Radio.root Updates] Sweet I hope it works in Firebird too. 9:45:10 AM comment []
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