Archive 25. November 2003

AROS: Amiga® Research Operating System

For Amiga users: an open source system aiming to be compatible with AmigaOS. And these guys are already making real progress. OK, for Amiga fans this might be old hat, but it was new to me. My Amiga, though, has only booted maybe a handful of times during my ownership.

Here's the original article.

Genetic Information Should Not Be Patentable

That's cool - there's a potential procedure for detecting breast cancer through blood tests, and an American company has patented the genes associated with it and is taking action against the use of these tests. Sure, you can get it analyzed by them, but it's more expensive than previous procedures. And of course, Europe is stupid enough to grant such an inhumane patent as well.

At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

Hamster burrow oldest pantry in the world

The rodent from Ice Age?

At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft there is the original article.

Here comes the horror!

Great. Simply great.

I found the the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.

Internet Explorer vulnerable again

It would be easier to report only when he is supposedly invulnerable at the moment...

At heise online news there is the original article.

Criticism of Web Server Statistics

Oh yes, he who pays the piper calls the tune ...

At heise online news you can find the original article.

McBride intimates code cleanup in Linux nigh impossible

And he keeps spinning on. If indeed Linux 2.2 - and this is now a statement from SCO itself - had no problems, then Linux could still set up at that level without problems and continue on. The Linux 2.2 kernel was readily functional and usable. So if he were right (which would be absurd and silly - because so far he's done nothing but spout hot air), it certainly wouldn't be the catastrophe he's talking about.

Apart from the fact that he still hasn't grasped that Linux is the kernel and not the system - switching the kernel is really the least of all problems.

And also charming is the claim that suddenly there are millions of lines of code that SCO is now objecting to - if there are that many, why can't he produce even a single example so far that holds up to more than 10 minutes of analysis?

The guy is really amusing. Has certain similarities to the former Iraqi information minister, all of McBride's fuss and feathers.

At XMLMania.com - Google News Search: SCO I found the original article.

Tax Haven Red Light District

Well, but cutting social benefits is much easier than checking whether the state apparatus is actually doing what it should. Above all, politicians are not affected by the cuts, whereas they would potentially be actively involved in the control itself ...

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.