Wednesday, November 25, 1998

Thanksgiving messages: 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994. Michael Winser tells the story of the 'Bedlam Mail Storm' at Microsoft. Online Journalism Review: Portals are Power.

Hmmm... Salty!

Sample: Server monitor agent script, sends you an email when a server crashes.

News.com: IBM enables file sharing between Linux and NT.

FastIO: ClibPDF is a library of ANSI C functions, distributed as source code, for creating PDF (Acrobat) files directly via C language programs without relying on any Adobe Acrobat tools and related products.

University of New Mexico: A zooming web browser.

The Consumer Project on Technology opposes the Netscape-AOL merger on antitrust grounds.

Gnu.org: Is Microsoft the Great Satan?

Scott McNealy: Do we worry too much about protecting IP?

A USA Today piece, written before the merger was complete, explains the deal from the point of view of the Silicon Valley venture capitalist working behind the scenes.

I'm still getting mail for pointing to the Fred Langa piece on Apple. The more they try to control me, the more I will resist it. I'm tired of people with weak bladders who scream "You made me pee!" just because I pointed to a bunch of bits stored on a hard disk somewhere. The Langa piece is labeled as opinion. These must be people whose parents fed them whenever they screamed when they were babies.

Roger Espinosa wonders if his daughter will be a platform bigot if he coddles her as an infant.