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The Economist magazine is running an article on the series of SCO versus IBM / Red Hat / Linux court battles. It’s rather brief, but I do like the description of “buttoned-down types clinging to proprietary and closed computer systems”. Fairly appropriate in more ways than one - SCO CEO Darl McBride is [...]

Most open source supporters will be aware of the Halloween Documents; a series of documents relating primarily to Microsoft’s efforts to destroy Linux and the open source development model.
As one of Microsoft’s minions in the fight against open source, SCO is now featured in Halloween IX: It Ain’t Necessarily SCO. In Halloween IX, open [...]

For anyone using Samba to provide Windows file sharing, the following directives will help stop the spread of network share viruses.

# Don’t allow access to any of the following files.
# Useful for preventing the spread of virus infections on your server
# should a Windows-connected client become infected.
# The last match bit prevents accessing files with [...]

Sobig, LoveSan, Welchia, LoveBug, Melissa, Code Red, Nimda, Klez, Bugbear, Sircam, Badtrans, Magistr et al…
I, for one, would like to welcome our virus and worm overlords and hereby submit that Windows is the most secure and stable operating system in the history of our planet.
I would also like to heartily thank BillG for using the [...]

As a Linux and OS X systems administrator, I spent a lot of time working in SSH terminals on various servers. Public key authentication means I don’t need to enter my password to log on to each individual machine.
SSH Agent is a graphical interface for the OpenSSH utilities that are distributed with OS X. [...]

In yet another example of anti-consumer behaviour by record companies, Universal and Warner have been fined AUD$2 million after trying to bully record stores to not sell (legal) cut-price, imported CDs.
Both companies was fined AUD$1 million, and four senior executives fined AUD$45,000 each, after engaging in behaviour the Federal Court Justices described as “…plainly [...]

Pauline Hanson, the xenophobic politician from Queensland, has just been jailed for three years for electoral fraud. After rising quickly to infamy with her racist and simplistic policies, her political career collapsed just as rapidly.
It appears she has few remaining supporters, with one exception - the Pauline Hanson website which compares her favourably to [...]

Inspired by recent attendance at a lecture on the dot com industry, I decided to return to the scene of the most spectacular dot com crash of them all: boo.com. Internet literature still abounds on the story - after all who could fail to be intrigued by the story of two Swedish entrepreneurs [...]

SCO, the Unix company who has recently been attacking the General Public License (GPL) as legally invalid and a destroyer of intellectual property value, is now proud to include an important GPLed application in its latest product.
In one breath SCO CEO, Darl McBride, recently said “At the end of the day, the GPL is not [...]

One of Hollywood’s top executives is blaming the use of SMS messaging for unexpectedly low box office takings. Apparently viewers are texting their friends to let them know just how bad the latest blockbusters actually are.

“In the old days, there used to be a term, ‘buying your gross,’ ” Rick Sands, chief operating officer [...]