Archive for November, 2005

Microsoft to “Standardize” file formats…

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Microsoft to FUD OpenDocument by “standardizing” Office 12 XML file format

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More machines than people on the Internet, Duh!

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Some rocket scientist, Nick Farrell, over at The Inquirer makes the seeming apocalyptic statement that, “More machines than people on the Internet.” Oh my, when did that happen? What this genius fails to recognize is that there has always been more computers than people on the Internet.
Let’s review the simplest case, a single […]

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on Open Source Patch Management

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Today, Dana Blankenhorn on ZD.net opines about the need for open source patch management. More specifically he talks about notifications of vulnerabilities. Well the best kept secrets in open source, the BSDs handle this just fine in my opinion.
Being a FreeBSD user, I have to say that portaudit and the FreeBSD Security […]

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