Month: March 2000

Win 2000 Server Contains Defect.
“The defect prohibits administrators from adding more
than 51 IP addresses to a Windows 2000 server
configured as a domain controller… Microsoft calls the defect
an ‘issue,’ not a bug.” Comedy!

IBM’s operating system quandary, and the Linux solution.
“All of this suggests that Linux will play an increasingly
important role in IBM, eventually displacing some or all of
IBM’s proprietary operating systems across the whole
spectrum of hardware platforms. This will be beneficial for
everyone.”

Uh-oh, Brig is going away, the web will be a less interesting place next week.

The millions that all of the dotcoms spent on Super Bowl advertising are failing to pay off. Doesn’t surprise me. The only one of those sites I’ve ever visited is Monster.

Someday, many years from now, I’ll have to explain to my grandkids why Microsoft was so dominant in the early part of the 21st century. “Granddaddy,” they’ll ask me, “why were Microsoft products so popular when you were young, despite the fact that freely available alternatives were so clearly superior?” And I won’t know what to tell them. I’ll say, “I’m not sure, kids, I think people were doing a lot drugs back then. Or maybe Bill Gates was paying us lots of money to use his software. I really can’t remeber, I try not to think about those days.”

Good article at Salon about D20, Wizards of the Coast‘s new “open-gaming” system.

My new reason for living is to play with Constructor.

Yay, a response to Prerequisites to Being a Modern Liberal Democrat.

X-Men trailer is online.

Be has opened the source code to the user interface of BeOS 5, but not the kernel. Apple has opened the source code to the kernel of MacOS X, but not the user interface. Somebody just needs to put the pieces together and we’ll have a complete next-generation OS 😉