The Washington post reports that the Secret Service provided over 1.5 million bucks and technical aid to a New Hampshire company that is trying to build a national database of driver’s license photos. Not only are the states selling our personal information (which we are required to provide), but the government is helping private companies buy it.
I was reading this story about the Web site for the Grammy awards, which is being produced by IBM, and I thought it would be interesting to see what Web server the site is running. Lo and behold, the site is running Apache 1.1.1 (a rather old version) on Linux. If it’s good enough for IBM and the Grammys, it should be good enough for you.
The radio station in the town where I grew up has its own Web site. Check out http://www.kogt.com. They even allow you to listen in via RealAudio.
Microsoft exec Brad Chase claims that the reason AOL hasn’t switched to Netscape Navigator as their default web browser is that they want to make the government’s case look better.
One thing that has always annoyed me is the mass ceremony in which everyone in the PC industry once again swears fealty to Intel every time they release a new chip, no matter how uninspiring it is. All of the PC vendors issue press releases announcing that they’ll support the chips, and software developers promise to take advantage of any new instructions that have been created. Intel’s new part costs about $750 on the street, and in the real world only provides about a 5% performance advantage over an overclocked Celeron 300A ($60) in most 3D games. Yawn.