osOpinion has a short and nearly worthless article about FreeBSD. Even so, it’s nice to see FreeBSD get some press.
Geeks will appreciate: Linux Development Tools.
Best Buy has stopped ordering iMacs because they don’t want to sell all five flavors, according to this San Francisco Chronicle article.
IDC’s report, Strategies for Windows NT in the Enterprise , sets the record straight with regard to Windows NT adoption, and takes the computer industry press to task for buying into Microsoft’s marketing hype. (The report costs 795 bucks, so for most of us, the abstract will have to do.)
Business Week Online springs to the defense of Mozilla.
New entry in the SQL book journal today.
For computer industry news blurbs with an education-oriented slant, try Edupage. I also just found out today that the editors (or perhaps former editors) of Edupage publish a daily newsletter called NewsScan, which I have not yet read. My favorite feature from Edupage is Honorary Subscriber, a brief bio of an interesting person provided with every issue. It looks like Honorary Subscriber has made it into NewsScan as well.
Are you interested in how Internet standards get made? Check out A Novice’s Guide to the IETF.
As we all know, Network Solutions has done a pathetic job of managing the domain name registry, so in order to fix things, ICANN has turned to … AOL? AOL, and four other companies will be allowed to register domain names, but they’ll still pay NSI for every domain name they register, and responsibility for the registry itself will still lie with the incompetent greedheads at NSI. What in the Hell is going on?