jwz bids farewell to Netscape and Mozilla.
In a white paper discussing software that runs on thin servers, the Gartner Group benchmarks FreeBSD against Linux. In raw Web serving performance, FreeBSD wins by a large margin.
I read a strange reader review on Amazon.com today for Ben Forta’s book, Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development. Apparently the reader was a research scientist, and thought that the book discussed applications for cold fusion (the energy source). When this person got the book, they read it anyway, became interested, and left the PhD program to become a Web application developer. See the five star review by the reader from Arizona, entitled “I thought it was about energy and ended up doing web apps.”
The FBI has arrested someone who is alleged to be the creator of the Melissa virus.
Microsoft must be thinking that with friends like Washington senator Slade Gorton, who needs enemies?
ZDNet has a pretty detailed story covering the arrest of David Smith, the alleged originator of the Melissa virus. The guy could spend up to 10 years in jail if he’s convicted.
Why do so many people who don’t actually write code want to tell the programmers creating free software how they think things should work? Need an example? Check out The Power of Openness, which not only critiques the free software movement, but even refers to it by yet another name (open code). Will these people ever leave the hackers alone, at least for a little bit?