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Month: June 2006

  • AOL chokes on millions of email messages

    Yesterday, AOL fell because of a “software bug” that prohibited any email to be sent or received by the millions of subscribers to the giant ISP. After an unspecified time (visibly less than 24 hours), the operation could be restored. It seems that there was no email lost. The very old but robust email protocols…

  • ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    ThePirateBay: We’ll be back

    That’s the message that the owners of ThePirateBay.org are sending right now. They expect to come back within a day or two. Woa! If they go as quick as that, it seems they were ready or prepared. I’m not sure that the entertainment industry was expecting such a fast move. I did not.

  • OpenOffice first virus

    One of the arguments pushed forward by the proponents of OpenOffice, the free open source desktop suite (replacement for Ms-Office) has long been the total lack of security issues. I never did use it, while I favor strongly OpenOffice and I appreciate this feature, because I felt that it was only linked to the more…

  • Vista is late. We know why.

    Gary Krakow, columnist at MSNBC has tried the Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2. It is fair to say that his report is shooting Vista down. Essentially, Vista is nice but it is a nightmare to install. You can expect that to be a proof of instability and a reason for added delays at delivering the…