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The first award is for
Santa Claus. Good sales to our nominees and Happy Christmas
to everybody else!
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The best jump on the hills.
Palm Pilot VII is announced
with no respect to PP IV, V and VI. It will provide a wireless connection
to the Internet but sic! not the Internet connection. If you don't feel
the difference - believe that hackers do.
The real wireless IP is promised
by Motorola, but it doesn't have a Palm competitor device.
The second benefiter is Lucent, who is hosting the network.
Who can made a cheaper clone? Bring it to Motorola...
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The vice king builds his own empire.
Paul Allen slowly escapes from Titanic and makes
strategic investments in cable companies as well as in next
generation processor technologies. Looks like he plans to dominate the
world twice. But please, then, don't be so rude as your friend Billy was.
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The best Internet software of the.. next year.
Oracle announce the partnership with HP on data warehousing. Sure,
we talk about Oracle 8i database and
V 25000 HP's megaserver. The third component will be WebLogic application
server, acquired by BEA. HP try to eat the piece of Sun's cake, but
Oracle enjoy that.
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The rumor of the month. Dec. 8, "The Register"
tell that Apple and
3Com may announce
the partnership on PalmOS. Apple was rumored to have a hidden hand-held
project, where former Newton crew is working now. And PalmPilot seems
to become too big for a small 3Com. So that rumor makes sense.
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Java is... boring
The Altavista search by keywords +java +boring give me
28290 Web pages.
Some analysts predict that in 5 years 95% of computers will be Java-only.
But is it a good news for C++ and SmallTalk developers from the one
side and Visual Basic from another? Even on video we have Betacam, VHS
and DVD to make everybody happy. So it may turns that after the weak
foe Windows disappear, Java may face the real confrontation from
the Unix market. If you "write once, run anywhere" where are
yours support money?
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The best manager is an anonymous
Microsoft manager who discovered the new income source for the company.
The problem is that Windows 95 have a software timing glitch on some
Intel Celeron and AMD motherboards. Microsoft decided to charge AMD $35
for the patch that will fix the problem. Although that time this may not
becomes a big source of money, but the idea itself looks great for the
next year. In fact, Microsoft may introduce the $1000 Windows patch
for the year-2000 problem as late as in December '99 and boost its
Christmas sales to the new record rate.
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"Really Bad Attitude" (C) Jamie Zawinski. Once upon
a time, best Netscape kids posted Politically Incorrect messages to
that group. That was a way good hackers fight against bad mood and
Big Boss.
Well, time changed. Anonymous MCI employee shows
The Really Bad Attitude to its company. We know that chaotic Windows NT
design made it very unstable, yet very insecure. So if you want your Boss
to be fired and yours company happens to run Windows NT on
mission-critical tasks, follow 3 easy steps:
Download latest "Remote Explorer" from the Cult of Dead Cow
and bring it to work.
Insert disk in drive A:, type "virus.exe" and press Enter.
Run away. Yours corporate network and all data goes to hell...
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