While cruising through Slashdot this afternoon, I came upon an item in which Rolling Stone blogger Charles Coxe asks whether Apple may become Is the New Evil Empire. Once but the student (see their classic 1984 ad, their PC vs. Mac ads and oh, everything else that’s ever come out of their mouth), it seems that little ol’ Apple finally could be turning into the Master. The 1984 ad was then and still is extremely creepy–it was meant to lash…

After reading my colleage Joe Wilcox’s ebullient ode to the new Windows Vista commercial that appeared during Lost, I had to see it for myself. Here’s what I got: A click on the image brought me to Adobe’s site, where I was informed that I’d need to upgrade my Flash Player version to 9.0.31.0–which is the version I’m already running. Shockwave [appeared to have been] the culprit — there’s no Shockwave for Linux. My workaround? I joined many wacky Linux…

This morning I came across a Linux-supporting sysadmin’s tale of woe entitled: Ten years of pushing for Linux adoption in the workplace (and why I gave up.) To sum it up, the writer of the piece, Jim Sampson, has been trying to get Linux working with Microsoft Exchange since the mid-nineties, and he’s had nothing but trouble accessing public folders. Therefore, for him, Linux can’t cut it in the workplace. As a long time Linux user with a company-issued Exchange…

Michael Geist – Vista’s Fine Print Raises Red Flags Microsoft responded to Guttman’s paper earlier this month, maintaining that content owners demanded the premium content restrictions. According to Microsoft, “if the policies[associated with the premium content] required protections that Windows Vista (tags: vista drm licensing microsoft) Vista Chattiness Is in the Eye (Ear?) of the Beholder Some have taken exception to Vista’s permission-asking proclivity, but it may be that we’ve just become too cavalier about making fundamental changes to our…

UbuntuAttack “In just 5 days, Vista will be upon us. It will be flooding through the doors of retail, and Microsoft will win again. We can do something to stop it.” Relax, guys, Vista’s not going to explode so fast… (tags: vista ubuntu linux) SourceForge.net: sux0r – Bayesian RSS sux0r – Bayesian RSS. A multi-user RSS aggregator with multi-category Bayesian filtering capabilities. (tags: rss Bayesian php web) eweeklabs’ bookmarks on del.icio.us eWEEK’s tagged output of the past several years. (tags:…

Robert Hensing’s Blog : Random Vista Security Factoid Du Jur (tags: vista security) DJ Drama Arrested – Report – New York Times Your tax dollars at work. (tags: billable) Docvert [current 3.0] (tags: openoffice microsoft) Microsoft Watch – Security – The Anti-Virus Question Answered (tags: windows security)

Linux Lacks Innovation “To get a true glimpse of how much the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community really is like the Soviet empire…” Oh man, get this guy some chill pills, stat! (tags: linux windows) install.exe/Prototype – Ubuntu Wiki (tags: ubuntu windows)

Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3 (tags: solaris) iPhone skins irk Apple – Mobiles & Handhelds – Connectivity – Technology Another cease and desist order for the rest of us. (tags: apple billable) Vista Security: A Petulant Child (tags: vista security)

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . What’s in a Name? | PBS Why won’t the iPhone consume 3G Internet? Cringely thinks it boils down to Apple profiting from iTunes, but not from Cingular’s 3G-borne video service… (tags: apple wireless cingular) Red Hat’s Fedora to Get Longer Support “‘While the “Legacy” name might be disappearing, we’re also planning to extend the time frame that a Fedora release is officially maintained from its current period, which is about 10 months, to probably…

Thanks to CBC News, in association with an unamed Microsoft representative, for giving me a new favorite term. From the story: A senior Microsoft Corp. executive says the company is concerned that uncertified third-party software loaded onto new computers by manufacturers could hurt the launch of consumer versions of its Windows Vista operating system later this month. The concern arises from third-party software that hardware makers commonly install on new computers in exchange for a fee, many of which have…