It’s a decidedly mixed bag for the second installment of the Star Wars Saga.

I’m still holding out hope.

I agree. OSX is UNIX for the rest of us.

I know I’m going to get flamed for writing this, but Apple Computer’s Mac OS X 10.1 is what Linux-on-the-desktop people crave: a Unix-based OS with an interface even a novice can handle.

Forsberg scores the winner at the end of the second period.

Oh well…. there’s always next year.

Microsoft has come up with another novel way to make its software compulsory – an annual subscription licensing system for schools where you have to pay for all of the computers you’re using, even if you don’t want them to run the Microsoft software you’r

###Is the Judge Paying Attention?

This includes Macs, and although the Ts & Cs of the agreement don’t make it entirely clear what you’re supposed to do with the Windows upgrades you end up buying for these machines, we bet putting them on eBay isn’t a recommended option.

Hopefully, the judge in the Microsoft Antitrust trial is paying attention to how blatantly Microsoft is thumbing its nose at the entire world daring us to take action.

And if you’re kidding yourself it’s impossible to top getting people to pay for software they don’t want to run on Intel boxes, and for software they can’t run on Apple boxes, check out the Microsoft UK Campus Agreement. This has you paying for software for people who don’t even have computers.

Disgusting.

This is for those of you that think that Israel has a choice.

…Fatma Abdallah Mahmoud wrote for Egypt’s leading newspaper. His subject: the Jews.

They are accursed in heaven and on earth. They are accursed from the day the human race was created and from the day their mothers bore them. . . These accursed ones are a catastrophe for the human race. They are the virus of the generation, doomed to a life of humiliation and wretchedness. And so on through many paragraphs, climaxing with a lament to Adolf Hitler: If only you had done it, brother.

This just makes me ill.