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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:03:01 -0600,
Erik Funkenbusch despam-funkenbusch.com> wrote:

And Centos4.4 is what I use on the desktop at work. Did you have a
point?

10 Days With Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

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| Ok, it's been ten days since I installed Microsoft Windows Vista
| Ultimate Edition on a basic Compaq laptop and its time to talk about
| how things went. Did the world end? Am I ready...

Open Source Moves Deeper into Product Development

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| Open-source has now branched from software to journalism and now to
| product development. It is not simply a trend; it's spreading out,
| seeping into any industry that has the imagination to incorporate
| it. I am waiting for the open-source job application.

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Roy Schestowitz schestowitz.com> espoused:

Microsoft releases software flaw patches

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| Microsoft Corp. put out three software patches Tuesday
| that fix problems carrying a "critical" rating, the company's highest
| threat level... Redmond-based Microsoft is still working on a patch
| for a flaw disclosed last week in multiple versions of its widely
| used Word word processor.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_security

Yesterday in the news:

UCLA Probes Computer Security Breach

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| The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000
| current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that
| their names and certain personal information were exposed after
| a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/12/AR2006121200173....

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.identityalert.ucla.edu

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Roy Schestowitz schestowitz.com> espoused:

The world seems to be learning the google lesson - build yourself an
enormous cluster, and then you can do anything.

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Bill Hopkins espoused:

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The Ghost In The Machine sirius.tg00suus7038.net> espoused:

Microsoft, HP to announce agreement on Wednesday

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| Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. said they plan to announce
| an "enterprise agreement" on Wednesday without disclosing any
| details about the deal.
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http://in.today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006...
http://tinyurl.com/yl34xr

Whatever it is, I sure hope it doesn't involve Linux and that it isn't
hostile (which I'm sure it will be, as usual).

More details I could find are here:

http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/164477.html

In today's digest, we have:
* Novell and Microsoft Officially Join in Loveaffrair
* Microsoft Invades LinuxDevices.com
* New Version of Compiz Released, Opensuse 10.2 Officially Released
* Microsoft Comments (Further) on Patent FUD
* Wikia Goes Truly Free Open Source
* Security/Usability Tradeoff Revisited
* Refurbished Dell Linux Boxes (2.4 GHz) for $159
* Microsoft Will Never Reveal Which Applications Vista Breaks
* Red Hat Goes Bigger, Will Ring Wall Street's Opening Bell Today
* Paris to Host Large Open Source Conference
* Kernel-based Virtual Machine Coming to Linux Kernel
* Free Open Source Software Sells Itself
* Companies Increasingly Worried About Their 'Intellectual' 'Property'
* "Open Source" Lost Its Meaning, It's "Free Software" Now
* Linux Kenrel Gets Fresh Firewire Stack
* More Minor Progress for Open Source Software
* DRM Continues to Die as Public Awareness is Improved
* Looking Beyond Vista, Microsoft Faces Problems
* Mobile Phones More Secure Than PC's ...