Palm is finally shipping a color handheld, the IIIc. It looks nice, but I’ll stick with my mono IIIx for now. The unit has built in rechargable batteries, like the Palm V, so even though it burns through batteries pretty rapidly, you can just put it on the cradle to recharge it.
Salon has an article about an interesting plan to thwart investigators looking for DeCSS sites on the Web. Mr. Bad has created another application named DeCSS -- this one’s used to removed Cascading Style Sheets from HTML documents. He’s hoping that lots of people will mirror his new, admittedly useless, program thereby making it difficult for investigators to find sites that host the real DeCSS software. Of course, if his plan takes off, how will people who want to play DVDs under Linux find the software they need?
So Dell is offering Web hosting now. Interestingly, they’re offering shared hosting, dedicated hosting, and colocation. More interesting, however, is the fact that every level of hosting they offer includes a Linux option. Their cheapest hosting solution runs exclusively on Linux, and at every level of dedicated hosting, it’s cheaper to go with Linux than NT.
It’s been awhile, but David Boies is back to abusing Microsoft’s defense attorneys in the antitrust case. During the long break, Microsoft came up with a version of the Chewbacca defense (WAV file) based on copyright, but Judge Jackson was having none of it.
I’m definitely going to save a link to Paul Boutin’s introduction to RFCs over at sendmail.net. I get tired of explaining them to people.