Microsoft is paying ActiveState to beef up their version of Perl for Windows. I wonder where this will lead? My gut feeling is that Microsoft feels like they can steal away Unix customers if they can get Unix stuff working better on Windows. According to the article, Microsoft is paying for the addition of the fork function to the Windows version of Perl, among other things.

News.com launched a minor redesign today. They still put their stories in lame packages in order to rob you of an extra click, though. Unfortunately for them, I never look at advertisements or click on sponsored links.

Joe Nickell’s compendium of pithy quotes from the Microsoft trial is good for a laugh. I particularly like Judge Jackson’s comments on dead horses. See … now you have to read it.

Looks like the browser makers have brought a Y2K problem upon themselves through their own incompetence. The root certificates in a bunch of browsers expire at the end of this year, and will prevent users from using SSL-enabled web sites unless they upgrade.

What do you know? The FreeBSD ‘Zine (which I linked to over the weekend) published a new double issue today.