Hewlett-Packard is still looking for a new CEO. Why not Jim Barksdale?
Do you ever use the “What’s Related” button in Netscape Navigator? I don’t. But I did click on it tonight and discovered that you can suggest related links for sites, if you like. I’ll save you the trouble of clicking on What’s Related, and just point you at the Alexa Related Links Editor.
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall takes on the body modification … dare I say it … fad … in his weekly op-ed column. And I thought he just drew funny pictures.
Content providers are looking to porn to show them the way to profitability on the Internet. I don’t know what lessons there are to be learned from the porn industry though. I mean, the competitive advantage of selling your wares over the Internet for the porn vendor is that many people are ashamed of buying it in the first place, and they can do it more or less anonymously over the Web. It’s also one of the few products with low production costs that people are willing to pay good money for.
Action resumes in the Microsoft trial next week. The most interesting evidence of the final leg of the trial could come from IBM exec Garry Norris, who’s going to reveal the details from a diary that he kept of his negotiations with Microsoft over the years. He was deposed by Microsoft yesterday.
CNN’s lamely titled Insurgency on the Internet is actually a pretty good overview of the hacker (really, cracker) culture.
I really believe that the byzantine network of laws in America is making criminals of us all.
Scott Rosenberg takes on weblogs in his weekly column. This is one of a recent spate of stories about weblogs, but it’s more interesting than all of the others. He links to the usual suspects in the column.
I project to create a secure version of Linux has been undertaken by a group in the Netherlands. I suppose they’re working something that’s basically analagous to OpenBSD, a derivative of the operating system that will be written with security as the foremost concern. I don’t see how they can truly commit to this unless they’re willing to fork the Linux kernel. Maybe they’re just interested in securing the stuff on top of the kernel and contributing to kernel security within the context of other new work. I also wonder how this meshes with the Linux Security Audit Project.