An old but interesting article about the difficulties of not being evil as you become a behemoth.  Now, while I can't say I agree with every decision Google has made over the years, I still think that they really do try to do the right thing.  While some

After making a comment in the LQ Podcast that I could not read any of the UK ZDNet articles in firefox, I am happy to report that someone from CNET contacted me and things seem to be working great now in Firefox.  Fast response and good to see that this

An informative article about Google that gives you a small peek into the inner workings.  A minimal Red Hat running Google filesystem on a ton of $1,000 PC's.  They do state that they have their own kernel patches. The question I have is, do they plan on

Being sick has really put me behind in LWE preperation, so today should be fun.  I have a good weeks worth of stuff to get done in the next 28 hours, before I step on the plane to Boston.  I'm hoping to get a Podcast up tonight also.

Mike Nash, Microsoft's Security Chief, recently compared Microsoft's security record this year with that of Red Hat and Novell.  From the article: "Even with the relatively large number of bulletins we released this week, we compare favorably," he said. "Year-to-date for 2005, Microsoft

Google executives attempted to demystify the search company's product decisions during presentations with Wall Street analysts yesterday.  From the article: Google is striving to split its product investments three ways, following a formula of "70-20-10," Schmidt told analysts gathered at the company's Mountain View,

Sparked by this post (which starts "I want to deliver Windows Forms source code to you."), some people inside Microsoft may want to start sharing source code.  Kudos to Shawn I say, but as you may have guessed, it may never happen.  One of the supposed reasons?  "

An article about the recent OSDL Linux Summithas been posted.  From the article: "I distrust people with visions," Linux creator and Open Source Development Lab fellow Linus Torvalds said last week during a keynote at OSDL's Enterprise Linux summit. "When you look ahead at the

Andrew Tridgell has posted a great article over on Groklaw about a few persistent Samba Myths.  An interesting read and I'll guess that almost every person who reads the article will learn at least one new thing - I know I did. --jeremy

The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards.  A couple interesting points.  The distribution battle continues to get closer and closer every year.  Just two years ago Red Hat won with over 26% of the vote.  This year the winner only

In an interesting move, Microsoft has pre-announced 13 security vulnerabilities.  From the link: * 9 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. Some of these updates will require a restart. * 1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft SharePoint Services and Office.

The polls have officially closed and the numbers are being reviewed now.  Should have the results for you, along with some commentary, in a couple of days.  Thanks to everyone who voted.  For the fourth year in a row we had a record turnout.  If you have any suggestions on

Here's a quick follow up to this post.  From the article: The end result will likely be the creation of an invite-only mailing list to which people can choose to report security problems. Whether or not this list is actually used was unimportant to Linus, just that it