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Musings on general technology.

Permanent Link Monday, September 09, 2002

Last night I was reading about someone using ThinkNICs as cheap Internet kiosks, network booting them so that updates would be easier. I'm shocked that these things are still around, the specs are terrible for the price (and pretty much always have been). Today you can get more bang for the buck from Walmart.

4:40:03 PM | Comments: | Topics: linux 

NYTimes: Balancing Linux and Microsoft.

HP has fired Bruce Perens over his "Microsoft-baiting."

Part of me wonders what, if anything, Perens accomplished for HP. So much of his press coverage has centered on things that have nothing to do with selling Linux in the Enterprise and building an Open Source culture within HP.

[via Slashdot, The Register, and ActiveWin]

2:08:01 PM | Comments: | Topics: linux 

Krzysztof Kowalczyk: Give a spammer bad address.

Just found this idea: put on your web pages bogus e-mail addresses. They will be harvested by spammers and will clog their address books.

Wpoison has been doing this forever, and Googling for poison+spam provides a wealth of links. Interestingly, the author of Wpoison suspects that many spam-bots now respect robots.txt.

12:18:26 AM | Comments: | Topics: spam 


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