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Isabel Colegate. “It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.” [Quotes of the Day]
In the Sunday NY Times, William Safire explains “blog.”
Why PDF doesn’t suck: Guide for LaTeX users. Where to get free Type 1 fonts. [kuro5hin.org]
Tired of strategic planning?. CNET Jun 2 2002 8:16AM ET
But something good ought to come out of it. In a business environment of heightened risk and uncertainty, developing effective strategies is crucial. But how can companies reform the process in order to get the payoff they need?
John Robb:
The New Economy
: “Did the Internet enable a new economy? I think the latest evidence says that it has. But it isn’t the new economy corporate America expected.”
StarOffice to eat MS share (probably). Gartner fixes odds [The Register]
NY Times: Fun With Your Zip Program. “Using little more than the zipping programs found on most personal computers, [Italian scientists] can easily distinguish between texts written in 10 different languages and almost unfailingly tell which of a large group of texts were written by the same author.” …
“The scientists performed a further test of their technique by analyzing a single text that has been translated into many different languages — in this case the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The researchers used their method to measure the linguistic “distance” between more than 50 translations of this document. From these distances, they constructed a family tree of languages that is virtually identical to the one constructed by linguists. “
[Scripting News]
Mr. Fine contacted Symantec and was told that as of Nov. 1, 2001, Symantec had changed its policies and that his users could no longer use NAV updates on their home systems. (Because Symantec’s licenses are perpetual, in theory the home users could keep the original software on their systems, but without new virus definitions the software would soon be of little use.) “I was pretty disgusted,” says Mr. Fine. “Since we were on maintenance at the time of this change in policy, the right thing for them to do would have been to notify customers at that point. To ‘notify’ me by allowing me to renew, so I can read it in the fine print, is not the best way to find out that a feature that was a big plus for us in choosing NAV is now gone.”
Hackers turn tables on file-swapping firms. ZDNet Apr 25 2002 6:07AM ET
For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, a college student who declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out.
[Moreover – Computer security news]
Sun raises curtain (a little) on Solaris 9. New default thread library (for better multiprocessor scaling). Remote Jump Start. In 12-18 months, a Jump Start management scheme dubbed iChange. [The Register]
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