2002 Readings
- It's POI - fect (JavaWorld)
- Oracle raises Web services stakes in development tool upgrade (JavaWorld)
- Calling All Yahoos (sfweekly.com)
- developerWorks: Java technology : Diagnosing Java Code: The Null Flag bug pattern (www-106.ibm.com)
- Diagnosing Java Code: The Run - on Initializer bug pattern (www-106.ibm.com)
- An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE (www.onjava.com)
- ONJava.com: An Interview with Simon Phipps [Mar. 15, 2001] (www.onjava.com)
- Sklyarov reflects on DMCA travails (news.com)
- California orders mass arrests of Muslim foreigners (news.independent.co.uk)
- Bush to propose requiring ISPs to monitor Net (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Radio Free Software (Salon)
- Wall Street firms agree to $1 billion settlement (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sharp's 3D monitors: Look, no glasses (news.com)
- Oracle plan exposes Java rift (news.com)
- The Boondocks (www.ucomics.com)
- The Cranky User: Could you repeat that in English? (www-106.ibm.com)
- Microsoft flaws could hit music traders (news.com)
- Is $200 the magic number for PCs? (news.com)
- Big Brother Doctors Health Info (Wired)
- xml-dev - The privilege of XML parsing - Data types, binary XML and XML pipelines (lists.xml.org)
- Wired News: Saving Your Bits for Posterity (Wired)
- Elemental XHTML (dubinko.info)
- Adobe finds no eBook copies (news.com)
- Web activists keep constant eye on Pentagon's data - mining point man (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Cities Say No to Federal Snooping (Wired)
- AOL patents instant messaging (www.msnbc.com)
- Obituary: OS/2 (www.pcmag.com)
- Yohkoh's Troubles (solar.physics.montana.edu)
- Axis: The next generation of Apache SOAP (JavaWorld)
- PC killer on the loose (InfoWorld)
- Pick up performance with generational garbage collection (JavaWorld)
- Copyright verdict, new technology are reasons to hope (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Russian firm acquitted in digital copyright case (www.siliconvalley.com)
- The New Electric Company (Wired)
- New cell phone Java holds promise (news.com)
- Sun's UltraSparc doubles down for power (news.com)
- Salon.com Comics | This Modern World (Salon)
- The silent treatment (InfoWorld)
- Super Tweaks for Windows XP by Black Viper (www.blkviper.com)
- Putting XP in the zone (InfoWorld)
- Sneaky service packs (InfoWorld)
- Sun faces renewed H - 1B complaint (news.com)
- Sun to offer BEA's flagship software (www.siliconvalley.com)
- New Tax Plan May Bring Shift In Burden (Washington Post)
- Feds invoked national security to speed key Internet change (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Wired News: Deadline Nigh for INS Program (Wired)
- Wired News: Nigerian Net Scam, Version 3.0 (Wired)
- Perils in switching to Yahoo (sfgate.com)
- Keeping Track of John Poindexter (Wired)
- JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar, Part 1 (www-106.ibm.com)
- Microsoft warns of Java flaws (news.com)
- Mac Addicts to the Rescue (www.remodern.com)
- AT&T Wireless fine print irks customers (news.com)
- SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit (www.eclipse.org)
- Going to bat for logic (www.nj.com)
- Writing a Universal Backdoor (www.javaspot.net)
- Sklyarov testifies in copyright trial (news.com)
- Germany cautious on Microsoft security (news.com)
- From Mantis to Tiger (java.sun.com)
- Ground work laid for Open Source Java (www.theregister.co.uk)
- Hacker 'DVD Jon' Goes on Trial (Wired)
- Feds Label Wi - Fi a Terrorist Tool (Wired)
- The stage is set for cheaper theatre tickets (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Vampire Ecology in the Jossverse (www.stanford.edu)
- Rivals aren't ready yet to back HP's recycle plan (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Linux, Microsoft tussle in India (news.com)
- IBM getting Rational (news.com)
- U.S. shows Sklyarov video in court (news.com)
- More Linux desktops on the way (news.com)
- Ariel Sharon Has Walked Into a Trap. And We Are Following Him (www.commondreams.org)
- It's official - Tory leader less fun than shampoo (media.guardian.co.uk)
- Open - source clan in spat with Sun (news.com)
- Vision Series 3: Bob Sutor (news.com)
- Absolute Corruption (Wired)
- Madster told to pull the plug (news.com)
- Judge eyes place for Java in Windows (news.com)
- Vision Series 3: Michael Tiemann (news.com)
- A Chat with John Fowler, Sun Software CTO (OSNews.com)
- Vision Series 3: Richard Stallman (news.com)
- Vision Series 3: Bruce Schneier (news.com)
- Air Fright - Why Nov. 28 will prove scarier in the long run for airline passengers than Sept. 11. By James Fallows (slate.msn.com)
- How To Get Hired As An Open - Source Developer (www.theopenenterprise.com)
- If Saddam is such a monster, why did we arm him and trade with him?
(argument.independent.co.uk)
- Wired News: Doubt Cast on bin Laden Tape (Wired)
- Doctors charged over 'killing for kickbacks' (news.independent.co.uk)
- Java spat to percolate in court (news.com)
- Tablet PC: First Impressions (danbricklin.com)
- Space Power - How The West Wasn't Won (NAFA) (www.spacefuture.com)
- All Source Code Should Be Open (www.developer.com)
- Sun to give StarOffice Java flavor (news.com)
- Rights group looks at China and techs (news.com)
- Sun tests Solaris for Intel (news.com)
- Microsoft targets defectors with discounts (news.com)
- Font flaw foils Solaris security (news.com)
- Sun revenue on mark, but margins are tight (www.siliconvalley.com)
- How To Win Exemptions And Influence Policy by Seth Finkelstein (www.eff.org)
- Cheap products' human cost (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Recycling solutions for PCs are limited and face obstacles (www.siliconvalley.com)
- The Optimist's Dilemma (www.pcmag.com)
- Solaris, Rediscovered (Wired)
- The spy inside your home computer (news.bbc.co.uk)
- You Better Shop Around - - Not! (Wired)
- Daring to complain (San Jose Mercury)
- Cash cards rule, change is passé in Hong Kong (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Where computers go to die (www.siliconvalley.com)
- MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail's Win2k switch (www.theregister.co.uk)
- Lost Doctor Who show revived (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Sun springs for software maker (news.com)
- Oracle joins IBM's Java project (news.com)
- US training Iraqis to run post-Saddam government (news.independent.co.uk)
- Open Source Initiative OSI - Doc7:Halloween Documents (opensource.org)
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions (www.joelonsoftware.com)
- Electronic elections: What about security? (www.cnn.com)
- Florida votes - and the talk is of another 'fix' (news.independent.co.uk)
- The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries (www.ctnow.com)
- Dan Gillmor: Sun's McNealy voices confidence (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Review of "The Petstore Revisited: J2EE vs .NET Application Server Performance Benchmark" (dreambean.com)
- get your war on | page fourteen (www.mnftiu.cc)
- March of the Godless Takes to the Mall (Washington Post)
- Turkey's voters have delivered the 'wrong' result (argument.independent.co.uk)
- Government websites are a '£5bn waste' (news.independent.co.uk)
- Calm - dex: As tech industry contracts, so does trade show (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Israel and the Occupied Territories
Shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus (web.amnesty.org)
- Critics: 'Trusted computing' threatens consumer freedom (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Human rights body: suicide bombers guilty of 'war crimes'
(news.independent.co.uk)
- Settlers target the olive pickers in the battle for land (news.independent.co.uk)
- Passions run deep under the Iranian chador as young lovers outfox the hardline clerics (news.independent.co.uk)
- If I tell you that I'll have to kill you: Red Hat fights the DMCA (www.theregus.com)
- Judge OKs Most Microsoft Provisions (story.news.yahoo.com)
- The Tablet PC: It Rocks (Wired)
- ICANN Nixes At - Large Reps (Wired)
- Flag of inconvenience (Salon)
- Namibia wisely spurns M$ 'gift' in favor of Linux (www.theregister.co.uk)
- Amazon.com: buying info: Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis in Java (www.pctyrant.com)
- Albanian and Russian observers sent to monitor American elections (news.independent.co.uk)
- FoxTrot (www.ucomics.com)
- Why Telemarketing Is Evil (Wired)
- Sun shields server rooms from attack (news.com)
- Donor Profiles (www.opensecrets.org)
- Freenet keeps file - trading flame burning (news.com)
- Fabulous fonts in Linux (theregus.com)
- Congressman Criticized For Attacking Free Software Movement (www.informationweek.com)
- The Case Against Professionalism
How We Have Managed Industry Almost to Death (www.pbs.org)
- Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (freenetproject.org)
- Ad condemning anti-Semitism
on campuses misses the point (www.jta.org)
- Can you trust your computer? (newsforge.com)
- Janitors fight over union, bruise Yahoo (www.siliconvalley.com)
- An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0 (www.debianplanet.org)
- Stop the Patent Process Madness (Wired)
- Man vs. PC chess match ends in draw (news.com)
- Sun will lay off 4,400 (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Enron trader guilty of rigging California prices (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Ad fiasco: we will act, says Ballmer (www.theage.com.au)
- Microsoft's Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 (quote.bloomberg.com)
- Doing Intel
Lessons still unlearned. (nationalreview.com)
- ACLU Acts Against Patriot Act (Wired)
- Pearl Harbor in Reverse (www.theatlantic.com)
- C# standardization moves ahead (news.com)
- Hurricane Lili (www.noaanews.noaa.gov)
- After Napster - The Beat Goes On... (www.afternapster.com)
- OSNews.com - Exploring the Future of Computing (news.com)
- Robert Fisk: What the US President wants us to forget (The Independent)
- How to ZAP a Camera:
Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize
Camera Sensors (www.naimark.net)
- Ohio man files $1.5M suit against Marriott (www.thepowerhour.com)
- America’s worst phone service (www.msnbc.com)
- Bill: Copyright Power to People (Wired)
- Stop, in the Name of 'Bots (foxnews.com)
- FOXNews.com (news.com)
- Sun to restore Intel support for Solaris (news.com)
- Robert Fisk: Nato used the same old trick when it made Milosevic an offer he could only refuse
(The Independent)
- Netscape loses privacy dispute (news.com)
- Apple stands firm against entertainment cartel (www.siliconvalley.com)
- No-fly blacklist snares political activists (www.sfgate.com)
- Davis vetoes bill requiring PC recycling fee
(www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun's earnings revised upward (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Diagnose common runtime problems with hprof (JavaWorld)
- Pick up performance with generational garbage collection (JavaWorld)
- Red Hat's new Linux seeks to unify (news.com)
- Designing Distributed Systems (www.artima.com)
- U.S. workers taking H-1B issues to court (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Ballmer: United, we'll stomp on Linux (news.com)
- Gore blasts Bush's 'cowboy' Iraq policy (www.sfgate.com)
- Portrait of the fascist as a young man - Hitler's Hollywood makeover (The Independent)
- SUN'S J2EE STANDARD NEEDS JBOSS (www.jboss.org)
- TOP 10 REASONS TO PAY $90K FOR YOUR NEXT APPSERVER (www.jboss.org)
- The thin gray line (news.com)
- Robert Fisk: President Bush wants war, not justice - and he'll soon find another excuse for it (The Independent)
- Two flaws taint Microsoft's Java (news.com)
- Sun announces plans (www.siliconvalley.com)
- SCIENCE MUSINGS
Will evolution leave humanity behind? (digitalmass.boston.com)
- Taste and Aesthetics (www.artima.com)
- Sun to speed UltraSparc chips to 1.2GHz (news.com)
- We need a war with Iraq (www.contextbooks.com)
- Java Tip 122: Beware of Java typesafe enumerations (JavaWorld)
- Microsoft's new deal with Uncle Sam (news.com)
- Private Info Becoming Plane Truth (Wired)
- Where art thou Stuckists? Intel reveals share denial PC scheme (The Register)
- Bug-free dreams (InfoWorld)
- Robert Fisk: Glimmers of hope and decency during a bad week for Arabs in America
(The Independent)
- AT&T planning Java phone debut (news.com)
- Microsoft warns of thieving Word docs (news.com)
- Robert Fisk: The mantra that means this time it's serious (The Independent)
- Perfection and Simplicity (www.artima.com)
- IBM to shine light on new Eclipse (news.com)
- Corporate Paws Grab for Desktop (Wired)
- Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored (The Independent)
- Venezuela's Government Shifts to Open Source Software (linuxtoday.com)
- Poll shows free speech support down (www.sacbee.com)
- Platforms (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Mozilla 1.1 debuts to mixed reviews (news.com)
- Expert shows how to hack Microsoft system (news.com)
-
Shall We Dance?
Ten Lessons Learned from Netscape's Flirtation with Open Source UI
Development (www.iol.ie)
- Activists take on Hollywood cartel (www.siliconvalley.com)
- O'Reilly Network: Mac OS X Switcher Stories (www.macdevcenter.com)
- Students Say MS Buys Curriculum (Wired)
- Sun releases low-cost Unix workstation (news.com)
- Sprint security faulted in Vegas hacks (The Register)
- Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.
Or...
Shatter Attacks - How to break Windows. (security.tombom.co.uk)
- I Fit the Profile By Charles Simonyi (slate.msn.com)
- Homeland Insecurity (www.theatlantic.com)
- Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: (www.counterpane.com)
- Unix pioneer an open-source killjoy? (news.com)
- Dan Gillmor: Sun aiming new line at several targets -- including Microsoft (www.siliconvalley.com)
- www.mnftiu.cc | get your war on | page thirteen (www.mnftiu.cc)
- Return to Afghanistan: Americans begin to suffer grim and bloody backlash (The Independent)
- Red Hat, Sun to boost desktop Linux (news.com)
- HyperCard Forgotten, but Not Gone (Wired)
- Geeks in government: A good idea? (news.com)
- WebGain sells Java development tool (news.com)
- Sun to name Linux-Solaris chief (news.com)
- Be It Ever So Humble: Trash Home (Wired)
- Big computing flexes Linux muscle - Tech News... (news.com)
- Linux expo has come a long way (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System (Wired)
- Number of H-1B visas issued has fallen by half (San Jose Mercury)
- Open source's new weapon: The law? (news.com)
- Edsger W. Dijkstra EWD Series Paper EWD594 (www.cbi.umn.edu)
- Aquarium sharks turn tail when catwalk collapses (www.nola.com)
- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 1930 - 2002 (www.cs.utexas.edu)
- Scitentist's Death Haunts Family (San Jose Mercury)
- End user licenses keep getting more intrusive (www.siliconvalley.com)
- get your war on | page twelve (www.mnftiu.cc)
- Sun, HP speed Unix servers (news.com)
- Is privacy the next casualty? (news.com)
- A Costly Affair (www.computerworld.com)
- Court orders ICANN to open books (news.com)
- Finally...real security standards (ZDNet)
- 'Hundreds of Afghan civilians killed as US seeks to protect its troops' (The Independent)
- In Microsoft We Trust (www.upside.com)
- .Net Insecurity Day (InfoWorld)
- Ailing valley searches its soul (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Malaysian government considers allowing schools to use pirated software (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X (news.com)
- New cell feature helps find friends (news.com)
- Bruce Perens on Real's Open Source gambit (The Register)
- Piracy and free software not always counted (www.theage.com.au)
- Open-source movement fueled by community spirit (www.siliconvalley.com)
- We lost our daughter, but we want peace (The Independent)
- Internet extends long arm of the law (www.cnn.com)
- Do we need a national ID plan? (news.com)
- Politicians with integrity are in short supply (www.siliconvalley.com)
- 'Hacker' security biz built on FBI snitches (The Register)
- China to build own version of Windows 98 (The Register)
- Oracle's Ellison says U.S. should centralize data (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Andrew S. Grove: CEOs are the scapegoats of corporate scandal (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun back in black--for now (news.com)
- Switch on for state snooping (news.bbc.co.uk)
- GM Food Lives On in Your Gut (Wired)
- Report: AOL used unconventional business practices (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Is your cable guy a spy? (news.com)
- TI boosts Sun's UltraSparc chip (news.com)
- Tech activists protest anti-copying (news.com)
- The age of aggressive Linux advocacy is upon us. (www.linuxorbit.com)
- Ballmer: Linux Changed Our Game (www.varbusiness.com)
- Ballmer 'fesses up to Linux/Windows cost FUD (The Register)
- FCC news isn't all bad on telecom (www.siliconvalley.com)
- USS Clueless - MacWorld Rumors (denbeste.nu)
- FCC OKs Sharing of Phone Company
Customer Data (story.news.yahoo.com)
- File-traders in the crosshairs (news.com)
- House OKs life sentences for hackers (news.com)
- Microsoft pulls Java from download page (news.com)
- Microsoft makes $550,000 contribution to Peru (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Israel Blocks Palestinian ISP (Wired)
- Sun Shines Light on ID Alliance (Wired)
- Palladium: Safe or Security Flaw? (Wired)
- New security flaw in Outlook, IE (news.com)
- Who are America's real enemies? (www.guardian.co.uk)
- Apple to expand iMac LCD display (news.com)
- Mike Langberg (www.siliconvalley.com)
- TCPA / Palladium FAQ (www.cl.cam.ac.uk)
- Why Microsoft makes a complete hash out of C# (The Register)
- Four myths that lead to corporate cheating (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Stop the Presses: Sun Joins MS (Wired)
- Panel wrestles with privacy issues. (news.com)
- Sun buys start-up to boost UltraSparc (news.com)
- How to Disappear (Wired)
- Microsoft Hard at Work on 'Vault' (Wired)
- Corporate sleaze carves into our trust (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun to push UltraSparc V past 3GHz . (news.com)
- The Big Secret (www.msnbc.com)
- Layoffs at Sun prompt inquiry over work visas (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Microsoft .Net software's hidden cost (news.com)
- Valley's janitors... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun may get seat in Web services group (news.com)
- Sun may get seat in Web services group (news.com)
- Sun's Full Assault on .NET (Wired)
- Microsoft leaves no doubt (San Jose Mercury)
- Microsoft lawyers defy judge, refuse to budge on antitrust proposals (San Jose Mercury)
- Every dial you take (Salon)
- Why Software Is So Bad (www.technologyreview.com)
- Sun targets Microsoft with free software (news.com)
- Statistics firms revisit QuickTime counts (news.com)
- Windows XP will a... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun pins hopes on Cherrystone servers (news.com)
- THE AMERICANIZATION OF YASSER HAMDI (www.philly.com)No immediate charges for second U.S. Taliban suspect (www.cnn.com)
- STAR WARS AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Is George Lucas Johnny Reb? (www.jdedman.com)
- Radiological attack: 'Manhattan would be uninhabitable for years' (The Independent)
- A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington? (The Independent)
- Joel on Software - Strategy Letter V (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- New Oracle tech to put steam behind Java (news.com)
- Sun plays catch up with Web services (news.com)
- Microsoft accidentally distributes virus (news.com)
-
Justice Department: 147 people still held in connection to Sept. 11 investigation (San Jose Mercury)
- Rise of eco-tourism may be putting wildlife in danger (The Independent)
- Bill/Steve's Sexcellent Adventure (Wired)
- Microsoft Discloses Software Flaw (Wired)
- Behind Linux's Struggle in Gov't (Wired)
- Revealed: how the smoke stacks of America have brought the world's worst drought to Africa (The Independent)
- Programmers enroll in political training (news.com)
- Are you the Klez monster? (news.com)
- Kazaa users often expose personal files (news.com)
- Microsoft gets diplomatic in China (news.com)
- Sun offers business-friendly grid software (news.com)
- WebGain to exit tools, Oracle to buy TopLink (The Register)
- Open source invites terrorism - study (The Register)
- Read The F***ing Story, Then RTFM (Wired)
- Sun to launch new low-end servers (news.com)
- Is Qualcomm's BREW flat? (news.com)
- Europe bans spam (The Register)
- Enforcing laws in a borderless Web (news.com)
- Liberty Alliance expands membership (news.com)
- FBI destroyed evidence in bin Laden case after glitch with e-mail surveillance system (sfgate.com)
- FBI's CARNIVORE SYSTEM DISRUPTED ANTI-TERROR INVESTIGATION (www.epic.org)
- EU Law Turns ISPs Into Spies? (Wired)
- INTERNATIONAL DOMAIN NAMES POSE A NEW SECURITY RISK (www.sciam.com)
- Consensus at Lawyerpoint: Hollywood Wants to plug the analog hole (bpdg.blogs.eff.org)
- Allchin quizzed on 'secret' MS protocols and APIs (The Register)
- Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S. (www.eweek.com)
- Valley industrial pollution plunges (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Sun Micro CFO backs Q4 outlook provided in April (www.siliconvalley.com)
- New Solaris key step in Sun strategy (news.com)
- Sun eyes application server market (news.com)
- Borland releases JBuilder for skinflints (www.TheRegUS.com)
- Companies squander billions on tech (www.usatoday.com)
- Borland, Oracle heat up Java tools (news.com)
- Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S. (www.eweek.com)
- Sun: Microsoft worried over Web services (news.com)
- Are you the Klez monster? (news.com)
- X-Files: Science Fact or Fiction? (Wired)
- IBM, Sun engage in customer swapping (news.com)
- Hoax tells people to nix Windows file (news.com)
- Airport Face Scanner Failed (Wired)
- Tapping the alpha geek noosphere with EtherPEG (www.oreillynet.com)
- Fun with Fingerprint Readers (www.counterpane.com)
- Microsoft ploy to block Sun exposed (news.com)
- How Microsoft Went After Linux (Wired)
- Sun's Zander to join board of start-up (news.com)
- Patently Provoking a Debate (www.latimes.com)
- Rampant trade of stolen credit-card numbers shows lack of security (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Microsoft's file-share rule makes waves (news.com)
- Microsoft puts the squeeze on NW schools (www.oregonlive.com)
- Impressions from ACPE 2002 (www.seul.org)
- Adbusters: The Zen TV Experiment (www.adbusters.org)
- Israel's black propaganda bid falters as documents reveal an impotent leader not a terrorist mastermind (The Independent)
- This Is Your Father's IBM, Only Smarter
(www.business2.com)
- Beg! Roll over! Good reporter. Here's a virus treat...
(www.vmyths.com)
- Klez worm rating upgraded as spread continues... (www.computerworld.com)
- The pop-up ad campaign... (Salon)
- Five Worlds (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- Can Microsoft play nice with PC makers? (news.com)
- "Respuesta a Microsoft" (www.oreillynet.com)
- C# striking a chord with programmers (news.com)
- Sun may join Web services body (news.com)
- Brain Probes Give Rats Their Marching Orders (www.latimes.com)
- The animal research I can't defend
(www.guardian.co.uk)
- Software Bugs - Software Glitches (wwwzenger.informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
- Hacker finds fault in .Net security (news.com)
- IBM says Web services need Sun (news.com)
- The Monkey swings into action as Mayor (The Independent)
- File not found! (homepages.karoo.net)
- How club mascot may make a monkey out of the bookies
(The Independent)
- Dark side of cyberlife - (news.com)
- Tech exec exodus expected to continue (news.com)
- Sun losing another executive (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Stallman takes Gates to task over GPL (ZDNet)
- Slashdot | Nat Friedman talks of Ximian, Gnome (slashdot.org)
- get your war on (www.mnftiu.cc)
- Reforming the Administration of the DNS Root (www.proper.com)
- Banks: A veil of safety (news.com)
- Sun names new software chief (news.com)
- A law to protect spyware (Salon)
- XP Updates Start to P.O. Users (Wired)
- "1984" awards target Ellison, Ashcroft (news.com)
- Quarks or Quirky Neutron Stars? (Wired)
- MS Witness Takes a Java Break (Wired)
- Can a Windows guy learn to love the Mac? You bet! (ZDNet)
- Feds might use Microsoft product for online ID (Seattle Times)
- Little-known company unveils tiny PC (www.cnn.com)
- Patent turns playtime into pay time (news.com)
- Fixing IBM
Big Blue has big problems (www.pbs.org)
- Bush aides met plotters before Chavez coup (The Independent)
- Kazaa Lite: No Spyware Aftertaste (Wired)
- Huge hydrogen stores found below Earth's crust
(www.canada.com)
- The Microsoft penalty that isn't (news.com)
- Google protects its search results (news.com)
- Why Free Software usability tends to suck (mpt.phrasewise.com)
- Sun keeps plugging at thin clients (news.com)
- Analysts publicly pushed stocks they privately bad-mouthed, probe finds
(www.siliconvalley.com)
- Microsoft Attacks Free Software Developers with License (www.fsf.org)
- Software Writers Patently Enraged (Wired)
- Wired 10.04: Peace Is War (wired.com)
- Q&A Part III: Java creator Gosling on Java to... (www.computerworld.com)
- Sun debuts midrange "Starkitty" server (news.com)
- Sun Fries MS' .NET Strategy (Wired)
- One Alternative to Bloated, Pricey Microsoft Office (Washington Post)
- Is your e-mail watching you? (news.com)
- Report: MS Foes Bribed Attorneys (Wired)
- KDE 3.0 Released to public (www.kde.org)
- High-profile anti-Unix site runs Unix (news.com)
- Kazaa exec defends sleeper software (news.com)
- Servlets.com Weblog: The Day Java Opened Up? (www.servlets.com)
- The enemy: Rhetoric meets reality in Microsoft (news.com)
- Sun: Speeding Java for cell phones (news.com)
- Tech group backs MPEG-4 audio license (news.com)
- ~finlayd: articles: thinking stupid (www.btinternet.com)
- The goal: Sun looks for payoff to Java addiction (news.com)
- The week ahead: Java on tap (news.com)
- Microsoft Outlook's so-so security (news.com)
- Finding Pay Dirt in Scannable Driver's Licenses (New York Times)
- Microsoft releases new Java-related tool (news.com)
- Morpheus gives Web surfers a detour (news.com)
- Overcoming ICANN: Forging Better Paths for the Internet (www.pfir.org)
- How we can save PGP - Zimmermann (The Register)
- Developers' Reaction to Sun Suit Is Mixed (www.eweek.com)
- Sun Sues Microsoft Over Java (www.eweek.com)
- Sun brings antitrust suit against Microsoft (news.com)
- Morpheus' downfall: Bills weren't paid (news.com)
- Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: Coding style - a non-issue (www.uwsg.iu.edu)
- As technology rolls on, batteries don't (www.cnn.com)
- Information Wants to be Worthless (www.austinchronicle.com)
- Computer Features (rita.thegourmet.com)
- The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing (java.sun.com)
- Why can't Sun get its Open Source commitment right? (www.newsforge.com)
- Scripting flaw leaves sites vulnerable (news.com)
- Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help (news.com)
- iBook: the revised edition (www.timesdispatch.com)
- News: The developer's dilemma (ZDNet)
- Baby Bells Cry for Broadband Bill (Wired)
- Sun's blade servers coming this year (news.com)
- Consumers must exercise and insist on privacy rights (www.siliconvalley.com)
- If ICANN Can't, Who Should? (Wired)
- The secret life of your own laptop (The Independent)
- BEA aims to broaden its developer pool (news.com)
- California's old computers pollute Asia, report says (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Leader of Internet body recommends major restructuring (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Control & Creativity (gilder.com)
- Where Are These Pop-Ups Coming From? (news.com)
- Judge: If You Own Music, Prove It (Wired)
- Napster court win puts labels in spotlight - ... (news.com)
- PayPal hit by class-action suit (news.com)
- | Red Flag, China's first home-grown LInux distro (www.newsforge.com)
- Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet (cryptome.org)
- The Jakarta Site - Apache's JSPA Position (jakarta.apache.org)
- vnunet.com Apache on warpath over Java licence (www.vnunet.com)
- MS' Media Player Tracks You (Wired)
- Europe must stop parroting the American script in the Middle East (The Independent)
- Beefed-Up Global Surveillance? (Wired)
- High-tech discards threaten environment
(www.siliconvalley.com)
- Who Lost China's Internet? (www.weeklystandard.com)
- Record Labels' Answer to Napster Still Has Artists Feeling Bypassed (New York Times)
- Software snags cr... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Revamping recovery (InfoWorld)
- Judge says Microsoft must give states Windows code (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Interview: David Brin's Naked Truth About Privacy (www.privacyfoundation.org)
- New Architect: The Crime of Sharing (www.newarchitectmag.com)
- ONJava.com: Will You See Open Source J2EE Implementations? Not Likely. (www.onjava.com)
- Comcast tracks Web browsing of its 1 million Internet subscribers (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Microsoft’s new ‘compiler’ program has security flaw (www.msnbc.com)
- Judge asked to press Microsoft on code - Tech... (news.com)
- Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed (www.JoelonSoftware.com)
- PCWorld.com - Three Minutes With Google's Eri... (www.pcworld.com)
- Sun says Kodak files Java suit (news.com)
- Flaws in common software threaten Net (news.com)
- Microsoft to debut developer tools (news.com)
- Mercury News | 02/12/2002 | Microsoft unveils... (San Jose Mercury)
- School in heart of tech country teaches without PCs (www.oregonlive.com)
- Check the fine print (InfoWorld)
- Linux Moving to Heart of Sun (Wired)
- Linux Moving to Heart of Sun (Wired)
- NY accuses software maker of censorship (news.com)
- Sun imagines world of virtual servers (news.com)
- Sun moves toward Linux (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Linux-loving McNealy dons penguin outfit (news.com)
- Microsoft's blind spot (news.com)
- Sun to reveal administration, Linux plans (news.com)
- Sun likely will join Web services group (news.com)
- Mono and GNOME. The long reply. (mail.gnome.org)
- Sun storage strategy aims for EMC (news.com)
- Explain yourself Miguel, demands RMS (The Register)
- Gnome to be based on .NET - de Icaza (The Register)
- Where Did All the Hackers Go? (Wired)
- Gadgets draw a crowd at Linux show (news.com)
- Ellison says Oracle's 'whole business' to run on Linux (www.computerworld.com)
- Intricate Screening Of Fliers In Works (Washington Post)
- Breakthrough for Penguin-Heads (Wired)
- Brazil's Anti-Global Gadfly (Wired)
- Is Java Fast Enough? (www.fawcette.com)
- Government, Big Business battling another foe... (www.siliconvalley.com)
- SLA's forgotten victims (www.contracostatimes.com)
- Open Source's Dot-Net Less Open (Wired)
- Far from Guantanamo Bay, desperate Afghans try to grab the world's attention
(The Independent)
- Pelicans flock back to native Gulf coast (www.nolalive.com)
- It's time to hear other side of American Taliban tale (San Jose Mercury)
- Intel's Plan B chip stirs internal debate (www.siliconvalley.com)
- The man who would testify against Sharon is blown up. Was this another targeted killing? (The Independent)
- H-1B visas jump in 2001 (news.com)
- AOL's Netscape sues Microsoft (news.com)
- Silicon Valley's Underbelly
High-tech's temp troops: Overworked, underpaid, essential (www.sfgate.com)
- Sun posts loss; McNealy throws jabs (news.com)
- SURPRISE SETTLEMENT EVENLY SPLITS MICROSOFT;
ONE FIRM TO MAKE SOFTWARE, OTHER TO MAKE PATCHES (www.satirewire.com)
- Security Flaws May Be Pitfall for Microsoft (www.latimes.com)
- Master Merlin's new I/O classes (JavaWorld)
- Sun posts third loss in a row (www.siliconvalley.com)
- China orders Internet providers to screen e-mail, use less foreign software (www.siliconvalley.com)
- O'Reilly Network: Think Twice, Red Hat [Janua... (www.oreillynet.com)
- New Theories Dispute the Existence of Black Holes (www.cosmiverse.com)
- EFF Overview of Broadcast Protection Discussion Group
Industry Plans to Restrict Use of HDTV Broadcasts, Harming Innovation (www.eff.org)
- License Snafu Irks Linux Lovers (Wired)
- New UltraSparc outsells older Sun CPU (news.com)
- SecurityFocus home news: Breakable (www.securityfocus.com)
- Gates makes security top focus (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Peter's Evil Overlord List (www.eviloverlord.com)
- Solaris hole opening way for hackers (news.com)
- O'Reilly Network: The Open Informatics Petition (www.oreillynet.com)
- Some IE Users Still Vulnerable (Wired)
- Security Flaws May Be Pitfall for Microsoft (www.latimes.com)
- Aid floods in for Marjan the lion but Karzai's government has no money to help people (The Independent)
- American forces 'may be breaking PoW convention' (The Independent)
- An Open Letter to Borland/Inprise Concerning Licensing (freshmeat.net)
- Judge tosses Microsoft schools settlement (news.com)
- Judge Rejects MS Settlement (Wired)
- Linux Today - Richard Stallman: We can put an end to Word attachments (linuxtoday.com)
- Judge rejects Microsoft civil suit settlement (maccentral.macworld.com)
- Computer owners voice frustration with Dell's support (www.siliconvalley.com)
- Microsoft's security push lacks oomph (news.com)
- Unions a casualty of dot-com shakeout (news.com)
- Norway Cracks Down on DVD Hacker (Wired)
- Dan Gillmor: Lindows could give Linux life and worry Microsoft (www.siliconvalley.com)
- States propose digitized ID cards (news.com)
- Sun to drop Intel support in Solaris 9
(www.linuxworld.com.au)
- Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components in Software Development (members.aol.com)
- Joshua Bloch: A conversation about design (JavaWorld)
- The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annottaed Edition_ (www.lysator.liu.se)
- Ralph Nader wants Microsoft to pay (news.com)
- The Wrong Stuff (The Independent)
- Java Tip 122: Beware of Java typesafe enumerations (JavaWorld)
- The 70 Percent Solution (www.pbs.org)
- THEIR GOAL: GET TO FATBURGER FAST (San Jose Mercury)
- Vaporware 2001: Empty Promises (Wired)
- Bush's bodyguard accuses airline of anti-Arab bias (The Independent)
- ACLU decries face-recognition tools (news.com)
- Trolling the Web for Afghan Dead (Wired)
-
A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan:
A Comprehensive Accounting
(www.cursor.org)
- Liar, Liar, Eyes on Fire? (Wired)
- Judge OKs FBI Keyboard Sniffing (Wired)
- I remain, sir, Haggard of the Hindu Kush (www.observer.co.uk)
- MS struggles to discredit Linux (The Register)
- Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution (Washington Post)
- P2P Apps Share Spyware (Wired)
- File-sharing programs carry Trojan horse (news.com)
- Bush lifts limits on computer exports (news.com)
- Gilmore Commission
(www.Vmyths.com)
- Are Hackers History? Hardly (www.itworld.com)
- Unix Still Rules the Web (www.itworld.com)
- Printing in Java, Part 1 (JavaWorld)
- Memory matters (JavaWorld)
- Ends meet the middle (InfoWorld)
- When Runtime.exec() won't (JavaWorld)
- Breaking the Sandbox Barrier, Part 1 (softwaredev.earthweb.com)
- Breaking the Sandbox Barrier, Part 2 (softwaredev.earthweb.com)
- Privacy Expert Roots Out True Origin of "XP Flaw" (Internet News
- Global poll finds most think America brought terror attacks on itself (The Independent)
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Last Modified July 5, 2002