“You send her a flirtatious e-mail, she sends one back. Push too aggressively, she admonishes you. Woo her just right, and she’ll fall in love. Too bad you’re the only human in this scene.” From Wired.com.

Wired reports: “In a scathing 150-page brief, Microsoft accuses U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of being a stranger to logic, ignorant of technology, a media blabbermouth and preternaturally biased toward the Justice Department’s point of view.”

By a strange coincidence Microsoft’s dire warnings against buying
PCs without preinstalled operating systems seem to have
vanished from microsoft.com on the very day that Microsoft argued
that it didn’t have a monopoly of the OS market, and that “the market
position of Windows was created by… consumer demand, not
Microsoft’s control of total output.” The Register reports.

From Wired.com: “In a sordid saga of sex, fraud and domain registration protocol, a federal judge rules that the domain name sex.com be returned to the San Francisco entrepreneur who registered it six years ago.”

“It’s as much as about Linux as it is about Linus,” promised a flack
for the Murdoch-owned publishing house, according to The Register.

The LinuxNews Team reports that the Polish parliament has joined the Open Source community. “Its offices
started migration from PC to x-terminal based computer infrastructure. 100 linux-based x-terminals with the Intel Celeron processor and linux system inbuilt in flush memory are almost ready to work. All day-by-day parliament administration tasks will now be based on linux x-terminals with StarOffice suite. Read more
and check out cool pictures of ABA-X.”

MSNBC tells us: “Be forewarned! After installing a secondary
video adapter in a Windows 98 or Me
environment, the screen display is a blank.”                 

“Twig is designed to allow the use of virtual hosting, unfortunatly the script
that checks this fails to check for user suplied input, thus allowing
anyone to submit malicious values as the configuration directory.” From Help Net Security.

ZDNET reports that Microsoft is fighting an uphill battle getting
customers to buy into its .Net vision, as well as the
way of receiving software that goes along with
that strategy.

Newsforge reader garym writes: “This may be a pre-Christmas wake-up call to all web-publishers: As the results poured in, the election taxed the lesser of Canada’s election websites to their critical limit. At the height of the ballot counting, between 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., most Internet sites posting election results experienced major problems. In the heat of superstardom is a very bad time to discover your server can’t cut it. So goes the sub-text in this story in the Globe and Mail about Canada’s online election woes.”