Friday, November 05, 1999

microsoftRulingDiscuss is an experiment.

District Court finding of fact. PDF or WordPerfect.

The NY Times coverted it to HTML.

News.Com has quotes from the finding.

NY Times: Microsoft has a Monopoly. "Releasing his opinion of the facts in the wide-ranging antitrust case against software giant Microsoft, a federal judge on Friday evening said the company's dominance of the operating system market constitutes a monopoly.

MSNBC: Microsoft monopoly power found. "The judge in the historic antitrust trial of software giant Microsoft Corp. ruled Friday that the software giant wields monopoly power in personal computer operating systems and issued a decision highly favorable to the government."

David Carter-Tod: LDAP and Security in Frontier. "This isn't completely plug and play, but it's close." Windows.

News.Com: "Cobalt shares opened at 139, giving the company a market value of $3.79 billion. Later in the day, the shares had slipped to about 130."

In last week's survey 59% of the voters said Cobalt's IPO valuation would be between $1 and $5 billion. People are changing their votes! LOL.

Stop the presses! Cobalt IPO'd and they're booming! Excellent. We use their product, love it, and think it's one of the most revolutionary products on the market. Go go go!

OK, you can start the presses again.

I wrote a brief testimonial for our Qube, and linked it into the home page right below my picture as a permanent fixture.

Dan Gillmor: "Welcome to the first edition of a different sort of newspaper column."

Jorn Barger's start page. (This is the page he jumps to when he's scanning the web. Thanks for the pointer Jorn.)

Netcraft: "www.scripting.com is running Apache/1.3.3 Cobalt (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) on Linux."

Netcraft: "www.amazon.com is running Stronghold/2.4.2 Apache/1.3.6 C2NetEU/2412 (Unix) on DIGITAL UNIX".

The Wired Channel is back on line. The problem was less exotic than we thought. Just needed to delete a trailing slash on the URL. I like those kinds of solutions.

The Red Herring Channel is back on line. This outage was caused by a UserLand wire-trip. We broke a key verb in Frontier. This only affected testers of 6.1. I'm knocking heads over this one.

Bottom-line: Our showcase for the value of aggregation is back online in its full four-channel glory.

BTW, head-knocking came from The Three Stooges. Moe, Larry and Curly. When Moe got angry (he was always angry) he would take Larry and Curly by the hair and bang their heads together. They'd scream. The kids would laugh. Mothers would be appalled. We turned out OK anyway.

Here's a picture of Moe, getting ready to head-knock Larry and Curly, using their noses as handles.

The Three Stooges were an early release of Itchy and Scratchy.

The I Kiss You Guy is this generation's I Love Lucy.

And the original web anomaly.. The Dancing Hamsters!