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I have been lucky in that I get to work with some pretty smart people on a daily basis. The engineers and software programmers are always a dream to work with and I usually get a lot of work done. But the minute management sticks there nose in forward progress is slowed considerably. I have found that the people down
Two LA spammers were ordered to pay $2 million and received various business restrictions in Santa Clara County Superior Court, this past Friday. This is the largest judgment won by government prosecutors against senders of unsolicited e-mail. The spammers are also the object of a Federal Trade Commission suit; however, both legal cases are civil suits, so there's not much chance that the spammers will see the inside of a jail cell anytime soon.
If you want to get a realization of how much Microsoft is misunderstanding Open Source then Robert Cringley has a hum dinger of a article today. [PBS]
If you cannot bear to be without your stuff then you need one of these. If your feeling generous buy 2 and send me one. [www.scottevest.com]
Seems Apple should have tested iTunes a little more and some Windows 2000 users have systems that will not boot. Windows pundits will probably say serves them right for giving in to the enemy. Well I am pretty pleased with iTunes so far but have not given in and let it manage my music collection yet based on reports that
Seems Tech TV is going to go out on a limb and demonstrate how to convert an Xbox to run Linux. I am sure this is going to piss Microsoft off and I wonder if they will intervene with legal action as this potentially could violate DMCA. [TechTV]
Although little is known about what Microsoft is going to be doing with Longhorn we do know that there will be Windows File Storage. Whatever they come up with all I know is keeping data organized is becoming a bigger challenge every day. Here is some insight from a Microsoft developer [Jeremy Mazner]