Journal Journal: With love, from Debian 3
I received this amusing spam today:
Greetings From Victoria,
Comment i'm already set. (Score 1) 458
the bottled water i usually buy already has 0.07mg/L of lithium.
Comment steps (Score 1) 958
first step should be cataloging what you have: properly documented license, cracked/definitely illegal and uncertain legality (owner claims it's legal but can't find the license or the purchase receipt). everything without a properly documented license should be elevated along the proper management chain, but you should probably treat the uncertain legality cases different than the definitely illegal. maybe for the uncertain cases, you should give a deadline to produce proper documentation or some signed letter from the appropriate level of management that the software is legal even though they can't document it.
Submission + - Massive hack attack on Swedish sites (aftonbladet.se)
Sobieski writes: "Swedish newspapers are reporting that the night between Friday and Saturday, a mass hacking on Swedish websites occured. The attack is said to have affected almost 4000 sites and according to an article in the newspaper Aftonbladet, the hackers have set up a page to which all hacked sites were redirected. The page supposedly contained a list of all the hacked websites and a taunting message to their "competition" that according to them "only" managed to hack around 1600 sites."
Submission + - Microsoft Security Evangelist Eschews Antivirus (beskerming.com)
SkiifGeek writes: "With October being Cyber Security Awareness Month (recognised here, amongst other places), news that one of Microsoft's chief Security Evangelists intentionally avoids running any Antivirus software is an interesting statement of faith in the capabilities of the Windows Firewall, Vista's UAC, and end user education.
Making such a bold statement is not without it's risks."
Making such a bold statement is not without it's risks."
Submission + - Why the Unbundling Windows Sceptics are Wrong (cybersource.com.au)
An anonymous reader writes: Various pro-competition organisations have now called to have Windows unbundled from PCs. This posting reviews the key arguments against such a move, along with an explanation as to why these arguments are invalid.
Submission + - Bill Gates on software, from 1989 1
An anonymous reader writes: The University of Waterloo has uploaded a talk by Bill Gates, on software, that took place there in 1989. Available here, the talk was only recently digitized and contains many predictions from someone who was already starting to become an industry leader at that time. Many are surprisingly accurate and quite relevant today.
