sysadmin madness, in relative perspective
We’ve come to expect some great deal of FUD from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation. But his minions (no offense intended) seem to have picked up on the art, and are doing so quite nicely. According to Jeff Jones, strategy director in the Microsoft Security Technology Unit, Windows vista beats Sun Solaris and Linux … Read More “Microsoft: Windows safer / more secure then Linux, Sun Solaris” »
Okay, some of you might have felt a tremor on the 10th of August. And in case you where wondering: that was the Novell vs SCO verdict being dropped off by the judge 🙂 This 109 pages of legal words are like the hand of God (or whatever deity you favour) smacking SCO down. GrokLaw … Read More “SCO falls… extremely hard” »
According to CNet the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a defendant who is contesting a drunk driving charge. The defence may review the source code of the breath test machine, in this case the Intoxilyzer 5000EN by CMI. Interestingly the case of who owns the source code, the state of Minnesota, or … Read More “US Judge: defendant may evaluate source code breath test” »