
A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans' private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the opinion.
Given that the largely derided administration of the last 8 years is expiring, should we be surprised? Should we even care?"
Yeah, that's useful.
IBM joined forces with Virtual Bridges and Canonical Dec. 4 to offer a virtual desktop package comprises three software components that sit on one corporate server. The bundle, billed as "Microsoft free," is then provisioned to hundreds or even thousands of desktops.
Everyone and their dog is reporting this. IBM is basically dancing on Vista's grave by promissing cheaper and more flexible solutions. Existing hardware can be used, Windows is virtualized to run legacy apps but the real works is concentrated for greater reliability and easier upkeep. People at the Wall Street Journal concentrate on costs and claim savings of $500 to $800 per desktop per year. Eweek has lots of technical details. Others seem to follow these leads.
It looks like IBM is ready to capitalize on it's GNU/Linux work in a big way.
What the world *really* needs is a good Automatic Bicycle Sharpener.