This column is the perfect example of why magazines should edit online-only articles as well as the ones that get printed on dead trees. Or are the op-ed pieces in Dr. Dobb’s Journal this bad too?
Red Hat has filed to go public. I wish I had time to read the S-1 (which isn’t available yet). I imagine it will be given close scrutiny by thousands of eyes, and that there will be a useful synopsis availabe shortly after it is published.
The Zagat Survey has put all of the content in its restaurant guides online.
Attention Perl geeks: libwww-perl, the incredibly useful group of modules for doing Web stuff in Perl, comes with three handy scripts – GET, HEAD, and POST. To grab the source for a Web page on the Internet, you can just use:
GET http://rc3.org/
To find out more about any of these wonderful scripts (you have to install libwww-perl to use them), just type in the script name at a shell prompt with no arguments.
Salon Magazine has picked up the sad story of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. Obviously this guy is a habitual criminal, but the fact remains that the crimes he’s accused of aren’t heinous by any measure, and he’s languished in prison for over 4 years awaiting trial. Where are we, China?