Monthly Archives: March 2003

Salon.com despite it’s recent problems, still has the occasional good article. For instance, The myth of interference. David Reed, former MIT professor, claims the problems with bandwidth are in the recievers, not inherent in radio frequency emissions. He doesn’t think … Read More →

It looks as if some of the issues with my main site had to do with a broken install of IE/Win on my work PC. It’s good enough now for me to stop tinkering for a while.

European Commission officials conclude Microsoft violates anti-trust laws but don’t know what to do about it. Why bother having laws if there’s no way to enforce them?

The German Net magazine Telepolis interviewed John Perry Barlow of the EFF when he was in Berlin to help fight a German version of the DMCA. He talks a lot about Digital Rights Management (DRM).

Oh baby! Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look.

Mitch Kapor, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has quit the board of Groove over it’s use by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Information Awareness Office. I tried Groove at work (it’s Windows-only) but found it did too little … Read More →

Check out this reasonably fair Mac OS X vs. Windows XP comparison. One caveat is that it’s focused on issues for creative professionals, so gamers, programmers, etc. may have different opinions.

Browser Innovation looks at Mozilla, the Gecko engine and Apple’s decision to go with KHTML for Safari.