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More on the SCO story here apparently these guys have a history of buying old code and suing people even suing microsoft over sone DOS code and winning. Doesnt bode well for the Linux community especially since Microsoft are now behind them.

Very bad news for the world of Linux. First Microsoft pay SCO a fortune for a UNIX license followed very smartishly by SCO suing everyone in Linux world for stealing their code (which apparently they never owned!). Now we hear that Microsoft have just bought GeCad for their anti-virus software. However, it just so happens […]

Really good new here about the Polish people voting overwhelmingly to join the EU. I firmly believe that the ‘new’ countries joining will revitalise the EU, excellent skilled but very cheap young labour has to be a recipe for economic growth. Heres hoping that Czech and Slovakia have similar results in there referenda.

So Salam Pax is Real! apparently he worked for a US journalist Peter Maass in the the Iraqi war. Here is the story. Sounds an interesting guy.

And here www.fleetonline.net is a new application that tracks previously registered mobile phones on the internet, at 21p a time. Guess its a bit big brotherish but its obviously what MI5 is using (without our permission or maybe its buried deep in our contracts) to keep tabs on us all. Guess it would be useful […]

Here is an interesting blog on care issues with the wondrous masteracre at dixons. Most interesting idea that Marie had was using google adwords to publicise her cause. Apparently google banned them after a while – will bring them the issue up at the Google University in London when I visit the Adword course.

and here is a shockingly good present for the woman in your life. A jacket that can charge up to 80KV when its owner presses a button. Just the job to keep unwanted hands of you!

Philip and his new friend Don came around last night and introduced me to Shazam. This is a pretty revolutionary new service here in the UK. If you hear a tune on the radio that you really like and want to know what its called etc (Yep, its really frustrating!) then you just dial 2580 […]

The virus that pretends its from support@microsoft.com came from IP address 217.57.140.195, message Subject: Re: Movie All information is in the attached file. name=”screen_doc.pif” Full header Received: from host195-140.pool21757.interbusiness.it (217.57.140.195) by mail15c.boca15-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.80vs) with SMTP id 4-033685454 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 06:47:35 -0400 (EDT)

A great story about the security holes in Microsoft products, remember the previous blog where they are offering classes in writing security software? is here. Their solution, buy another companies products!