Tuesday, January 02, 2007
1/3 SNR
- MOG has a new subscriber(s)-only article titled "SCO May Be Warming Up To Get the Judge Recused". I'm not a subscriber, so I don't know the precise details of what she's on about, but in the past she's had a direct line to SCO management, so this is probably not just a rumor out of left field. Threads speculating about the story on Y! and IV. I doubt they have a realistic chance of anything, but it may help them drag this circus out even longer -- although I'm not sure why they're bothering at this point.
- Some interesting research from Panglozz about SCO's friends at Morgan Keegan, and their ongoing preoccupation with the IP troll industry.
- CBR says one of their top traffic-generating articles in '06 was about SCO.
- The local weekly in SLC mentions SCO, as part of the year's weird events.
- Yet another mention of the SCO DDOS attacks in this security article.
- More on the Ferrari laptop situation. SCO gets a mention, for some reason.
- "SCO" is a fairly common acronym, as it turns out, which leads to a neverending stream of fun cheap shots. The latest: In the retail world, "SCO" can also stand for "self check out", a new money-saving feature that's understandably become popular with shoplifters. This leads to passages like "it's possible the point-of-theft just shifted to SCO" and "more than one third of the stores saw increases in theft after SCO was installed". *Snort* *Giggle*
- Vista: Not an option
- Vista: Not faster than WinXP.
- More about Vista.
- A piece from here in Portland, about a local WiFi controversy, from Bojack, a prominent local curmudgeon.
- The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is dumping Microsoft for Linux. More here.
- In case you hadn't heard already, HD-DVD encryption has been pwn3d.
- And yet, DRM is still on the march, despite all its flaws. You'll pay more, for products that do less, and you'll like it, Or Else.
- CIOs like Linux...
- ...and they aren't hot on Vista.
- A look back at 2006, from LinuxDevices.
- A piece about that critical QuickTime bug.
- More griping about OSX bugs.
- Linux on Zune!?
- Hot on the heels of the lamentable Ms. Dewey, the tards in Redmond try to be hip yet again, this time with a "web comic" shilling the virtue(s) of MS Office, believe it or not. From a post on Y!
- If you prefer real web comics, check out these recent bits from xkcd concerning Linux and Firefox.
- But it gets better. Try the tiny "Live It" icon at the bottom of the EnchantedOffice page. It takes you to MS's new Digg/del.icio.us ripoff. Unlike those two, it presents you with a cert that Firefox doesn't recognize, then resizes your browser window, and demands that you sign in using your Hotmail, Passport, or Windows Live account before you can see diddly. Feh....
By brx0 @ 2:27 PM 
