Archive 3. June 2004

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Girls are Evil - Mathematical Proof

Teufelsgrinsen

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Omikron Basic 8.0 runs natively on Mac OS X

Yet another zombie that's still alive. When I read through the Features, tears of joy come to my eyes. Those were the days when you could program in Basic on home computers. The world was so much simpler then ... At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.

Photo Organizer - Feature-rich web photo album with a rather stylish default look

SCO vs. Linux: Mission impossible

First SCO stands up and says there are millions of stolen lines of code. And that they can name them. Then they demand sources. They get them. Search through them for ages and find nothing. Hello? Why do they even have to search if the locations are supposedly known? And why don't they notice that the JFS for Linux is based on the OS/2 JFS? That's even stated in the documentation - if they search the sources, why don't they read it at the same time? But probably that's exactly the problem: if you don't read text, you can search through it forever without ever finding anything.

At heise online news there's the original article.

Silverlab Partnerprogramm - Photo print service with financial participation of the photographer

Symantec Chief: Windows is not less secure than Linux

Sure, quite clearly. Windows is the easier target to hit, which is why it's not inherently less secure than Linux. And of course the security problems are due to attachment clickers - funny only that considerably more server attacks against Windows are possible, all of which have nothing to do with attachments. And all this despite the fact that with servers, Linux and Apache are definitely the train rolling through the whole city, while IIS - alongside IE and Outlook, the security hole par excellence - rather only runs in the seedier suburbs ... At heise online news there's the original article.

United States Patent: 6,727,830

What a load of rubbish: clicking an application button once is the standard function, holding it for at least one second is a secondary function, and double-clicking an application button is then a tertiary function.

And for such banality, the US Patent Office grants Microsoft a patent. And we're just introducing those oh-so-meaningful and innovative software patents in the EU. Thanks, Ms. Zypries, for letting us deal with such brilliant innovative solutions and such meaningful patents in the future.

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