Monthly Archives: April 2005

“The FTP site is like a Bar at 6:00pm on a Friday Night” said my wife about her company’s internal FTP server that they use to share documents.

DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than Estimated – Yahoo! News Thieves who accessed a DSW Shoe Warehouse database obtained 1.4 million credit card numbers and the names on those accounts — 10 times more than investigators estimated last month. It … Continue reading →

See: Derek’s Rantings and Musings: MySQL Licensing Practices, Again MySQL has had for a long time now a confusing license for their database software. The database is released under the GPL which means it is free software. But according to … Continue reading →

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some people are. Take this post on CraigsList: I need a hacker (seriously) I am a nice girl who owes a little too much money to the university i attended. I don’t … Continue reading →

It looks like I was right when I said that there was no way to save Star Trek Enterprise by paying for it (See: Fans Attempting to Pay for Enterprise). STARTREK.COM We can not and will not be able to … Continue reading →

Service Pack 2 for Windows XP has been out and available for quite some time. In typical fashion people at large have put off installing the Service Pack out of fear that things would break. I fall into that category. … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago I was involved in a fairly large CRM deployment for a company I worked for. My step-brother was working for Siebel at the time and had some very wise words of wisdom for me… The … Continue reading →

This has to be a sick joke. Microsoft is going to force an installation of Service Pack 2? There is no way I can block it? People (like me) are going to be incredibly pissed off about this. Starting next … Continue reading →

While researching an application platform I stumbled across a new company (new to me at least) Force10 Networks. Force10 focuses on high density 1Gbit and 10Gbit applications for supercomputing and rendering. I want one of these switches so bad I … Continue reading →

Man, talk about shooting yourself in the foot… KernelTrap has a lengthy article detailing BitMover’s recent decision to drop support for its free version of BitKeeper. Linus Torvalds began using BitKeeper back in February of 2002, a decision that has … Continue reading →