Curious about what’s going on in the murky world of Internet governance? Check out http://www.icannwatch.org/.

The Windows NT vs. Linux benchmark marathon continues with German techie magazine c’t weighing in.

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Tomorrow, I’m going to try out the GPLed remote console software VNC on some computers at work. It works with Windows, X Windows, and the Mac, and you can control computers through a browser. It has to be better than PC Anywhere.

In a speech last week, Microsoft bean counter Greg Maffei managed to insult not only the temps that are suing the company, but also the federal judges who ruled against them. Truly the arrogance permeating Microsoft’s corporate culture is without limit.

Not only wouldn’t I invest in a mutual fund based on the Wired Index, but I wouldn’t invest in any funds managed by a company that would create anything so ridiculous.

Andrew Leonard has posted a brief writeup of the latest benchmark shootout between NT and Linux; he makes the unfortunate mistake of treating it as though it’s somehow important. It’s a pissing contest, and should be treated as such. (Not that pissing contents are never fun.)

Like everything else in the world, the domain name registration system favors big business. NSI pulled someone’s registration because she didn’t have a suite number listed in her contact information for her domain registration, which was for a domain AOL wanted. And the new domain bosses over at ICANN are considering special dispensations for “famous” trademark holders if they enter disputes over domain names with regular Joes like you and me. I suppose this is actually a good thing, because if NSI and ICANN didn’t mistreat us from the beginning, we might mistakenly believe that we have rights we can fight for, and then we’d just wind up going bankrupt trying to stand up to the mountain of litigation we’d face from corporate attorneys.

Windows Magazine is no more. They printed a column several years ago by some jerk with good hair who argued that Apple never changed the world and that Microsoft was really responsible for everything good that set my teeth on edge, so I’m glad they’re dead.

Web Review has a good article about the future of CSS. They don’t talk about the best future use of Cascading Style Sheets, though, which is to provide style and layout information for structured XML documents. Applying CSS to HTML to make prettier pages is useful, but applying CSS to XML to completely separate document structure from document presentation is just going to be awesome. (By the way, the support for XML + CSS in Mozilla is already very good.)