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An Open and Shut response to Darl McBride
Darl McBride posted an "open letter" touting OpenServer 6 as the world's most powerful, secure and cost-effective UNIX, a scion of the True Unix Vine, yadda yadda. Here's a point by point trashing^Wresponse.
Konqueror now passes Acid2 test
Konqueror now joins Safari and iCab in the exclusive "correctly renders the Acid2 test page" club. Interesting side-note, approximately half of the code to do that was dredged from the recent Apple Webcore "code-bomb".
Microsoft Office is too dangerous to leave with users
With Microsoft's renewed drive encouraging developers to base their IT strategy on MS-Office, the suite is now too dangerous to leave in the hands of users.
Ubuntu for Mama
I got sick of rebuilding my mothers PC every 6 months because she is way to trusting and like the funny things her friends send her. Every 6 months her machine becomes so loaded with adware/spyware/malware that it has a hard time booting. [...] So she's been migrated to Ubuntu.
Linux Genuinely Advantaged
In a classic illustration of the kind of junk Linux users DON'T have to suffer, Ed Foster identifies some people about to be genuinely disadvantaged by Microsoft's Genuine Advantage program.
Does SCO Matter?
What have all of SCO's legal actions amounted to? In many ways, not much, but in others, SCO has profoundly changed how we think about technology. [and Steve explores this theme]
Microsoft software caused air traffic shutdown
A bug in a Microsoft system compounded by human error was ultimately responsible for a three-hour radio breakdown that left hundreds of aircraft aloft without guidance [...] In one case, a pilot had to take evasive action.