Maszman Speaks!

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 out AOL/Microsoft Set­tle­ment: The Future. [link via email from Tris­tan Louis]

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 com­pa­nies to use but I can imag­ine it may have other uses, as well (like small groups of file traders who don’t wish to reveal what they’re sharing).

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, this doesn’t always work, since web sites get aban­doned and files dis­ap­pear, never to be seen again. Such is the ephemeral nature of the web.