Monthly Archives: May 2003

Ignore that link to WASTE, appar­ently AOL forced them to take the link down (AOL owns Null­soft). This isn’t the first tme they’ve annoyed the par­ent com­pany, either.

Here’s a mys­tery solved. The so-called Bagh­dad Blog­ger, AKA Salam Pax has been found.

Mean­while, back at court, Microsoft and AOL set­tle the Netscape law­suit for $750M. AOL also gets a seven-year deal to use IE in it’s prod­uct. Con­fus­ing? You betcha. But that’s busi­ness for you. If you’re look­ing for a decent analy­sis, check … Read More →

Finally, the long-rumored YOPY, a Linux-based PDA plat­form looks like it’s available.

Null­soft, the WinAmp folks, have a new dis­trib­uted com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­to­col, WASTE that they’ve released as Open Source (GPL). The client is Windows-only. One unique fea­ture is the built-in secu­rity via RSA and Blow­fish. They claim it’s for work­groups and small … Read More →

If you’ve been around the web for a while, you’ll prob­a­bly remem­ber John Hal­cyon Styn, who is no longer cock­y­bas­tard. Read why. One of the cool things about the web, is you can often observe a per­son change over time. Unfor­tu­nately, … Read More →