at The Register The Register has a story about a whitepaper posted by Security Officethat was written by a member of the MS Windows 2000 Server Product Group. The whitepaper analyzes the move of MS acquisition Hotmail from FreeBSD to Win2K. The startling conclusion (startling only in that a Microsoft employee wrote the document) is… Read More: Microsoft touts Unix over Windows 2000 »
I like Mozilla a lot, but the last couple weeks I have had a lot of problems with it. Admittedly, I have been using the 1.2 alpha and the 1.2 beta, but I was hoping to help out with the testing. Instead, I ended up with an address book and offline POP email files that… Read More: Mozilla Frustrations »
Today I rewrote a Python script I wrote last year for calculating playoff magic numbers for the MLS. It can now function as a CGI script and can generate a reasonably attractive table of magic numbers in an HTML document. You can check it out at https://www.wombatnation.com/magicnumbers/. The right side frame has an explanation of… Read More: MLS MagicNumbers »
Mozilla finally turns 1.0. The browser software, four years in the making in an open-source project, arrives on the Web. Netscape says developers wanted to be sure it “would indeed be ready for prime time.” [CNET News.com] Throw off your IE chains. Well, at least most of the time. A few sites don’t work too… Read More: Kick the IE addiction before it consumes you and your… »