Monday, January 22, 2007
1/23 SNR
- Another big SCO v. Novell hearing today, this time about the "constructive trust" thingy. SCO may be in a world of hurt if the motion succeeds. Although we've seen plenty of thing billed as the "last nail in the coffin" over the years, and SCO's still twitching and drooling away, so I'm not going to get my hopes up over this. Not yet, anyway.
- In what sure looks like a CYA attempt, Ralphie's trying to ingratiate himself with local Utah politicos, pushing CP80 in the state legislature. I suppose that after the last election the odds of Yarro getting his mandatory-CP80 bill through on the federal level have diminished somewhat, so he's trying it locally instead. And I suppose the notion of the Utah legislature having jurisdiction over the entire Internet is only slightly more silly than the US Congress having such jurisdiction.
- While it's not so likely the CP80 bill will make it through Congress, Orrin Hatch was demanding a federal pr0n crackdown last time the AG went before his committee. There's no mention about whether he uttered the phrase "CP80", but unless you've been following the SCO saga, that name probably wouldn't seem all that significant.
- Ralphie's really staying busy, it turns out. He's now joined the board of his local chamber of commerce, in his ThinkAtomic persona. Not a word about the SCO thing.
- Here's something new: a federal conviction for spamming.
- A piece about IBM investing in R&D. What a concept.
- ITWire: "The Age of Vista – does the ‘ow’ start now?"
- The weird, ongoing tale of the Cisco iPhone and the GPL.
- El Reg: "2007: the year of...?", which mentions the SCO suit as a "personal pension plan" for SCO execs. Not a very good pension plan, if you ask me.
- A new Tom Yager piece about SCO, which is actually more about the MS-Novell deal.
- G'bye OSDL, g'bye FSG, howdy there Linux Foundation.
- Linus is in no hurry to replace the 2.6 kernel. Or as Dana Blankenhorn puts it, "There will be no Linux Vista". He argues that not updating your OS constantly may be an advantage. Although if that's true across the board, SCO should be in great shape. They haven't done a significant upgrade for ages.
- A troll on the boards linked to this piece about the state of Linux installers.
- Reasons why OOXML, the newly "standardized" MS Office 2k7 file format, is teh sux0r. On the other hand, it's bug-compatible with previous Office file formats, which is something you just can't say about the document formats in OOo.
- A recent study claimed that datacenters account for 38% of US power consumption. Yikes.
- If you really care about saving the world, you could always change your web page's background color. Apparently this makes a difference, at least if you're Google. Golly, and I recently changed this blog's template to make the background whiter. I suppose I ought to feel really guilty now.
- In case you're curious, Sun and Intel are friends now. Apparently Sun's x86 boxes were all AMD-based until now. Well, unless you count the old Sun 386i from wayyy back in the Stone Age.
- From Slashdot, a bunch of ugly Vista stories.
- On Wikipedia, the very latest thrilling hairsplitting IP brouhaha, featuring one or more people you might've heard of before.
- ZDNet: "Vista at the tipping point?"
By brx0 @ 10:29 AM 
