I’m not going to be able to listen to baseball games over the ‘net for free this season. I doubt I’ll cough up $10 a month in order to listen to day games while I’m at work.
Entries from March 2001
March 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
March 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
I’m having real trouble getting a handle on what Microsoft is up to these days. Between .NET, Hailstorm, Windows XP, Office XP, and everything else, you have to devote real time to this stuff to sort it all out. I’ve read a lot of the articles in the trade rags about this stuff, but [...]
March 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Does it really surprise anyone that Donald Rumsfeld is totally screwing up foreign policy? Dubya managed to unearth himself a legitimate Cold War dinosaur and name him Secretary of Defense, and we’re going to pay the price. I had hope for Dubya when he named Powell as Secretary of State, but it seems [...]
March 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
In other operating systems news, early reports on Mac OS X seem to be mixed. A lot of people are incredibly excited about Mac OS X, and with good reason, I believe. It sounds like the new OS is a bit rough around the edges, but has a lot to offer (especially to Java [...]
March 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Paul Thurrott has a very detailed review of Windows XP Beta 2 on his Web site.
March 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Wonder what the scoop is on Extreme Programming? John Brewer has written up a short XP FAQ that hits the highlights. XP is one of those things that I’d like to try out just for the novelty at some point, but I don’t run a programming shop myself, so I just have to [...]
March 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Remember how Ralph Nader said during the Presidential campaign that there was no difference between voting for Bush and Gore? In case you hadn’t noticed already, reading the Washington Post’s review of Bush appointees drives the point home that the Republicans and Democrats could hardly be more different.
March 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
If you administer a computer running a name server, be aware that there’s a new, nasty worm out there that uses BIND as its vector. It’s called the Lion Worm.
March 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
Is it just me, or is it amazingly hypocritical to hold video games accountable for school violence when you’ve accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions from the gun lobby? That’s John Ashcroft for you. To oversimplify the situation, what do you think would be more likely to curtail school shootings: [...]
March 23rd, 2001 · Comments Off
Publishing scientific data about federal land that’s slated to be despoiled is apparently a firing offense under the Dubya regime.