Ted Williams: 1918-2002

With the passing of Ted Williams, America has lost a baseball legend, said President Bush, a former baseball owner. Whether serving the country in the armed forces or excelling on the baseball diamond, Ted Williams demonstrated unique talent and love of country.

He was the best damn hitter the game ever saw.

You’ll be missed Ted!

We had a nice celebration at Jeff and Sue’s, and Mark brought along some scuba gear from his shop to give us a unique and wonderful experience. This July 4th was a special one for the United States (the first since September 11th). This just goes to show you that you can’t keep America down. Here’s some pictures that prove it.

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The musicians need to take control over their own futures again.

There’s only one type of person who makes money in the music industry. A savvy, wily, businessperson. Whether this person is a lawyer, manager, a&r person, record company executive, promoter, DJ, or the talent, as musicians are called, they all have business smarts…
Once upon a time music was a communal thing that happened when two or more people got together and wanted to celebrate, or pass the time. Now music is packaged and sold to us.

Read the above article, then read [[Courtney Love’s Speech]], then rethink the way you buy and listen to music. If you’re a musician, you should LOVE things like Napster and Gnutella.

CarneyWeb sure looks a whole lot different than it did a year ago!

What do you think of the improvement?

When was the last time you remember a technology company doing that?

The widely anticipated update to Apple Computer’s Mac OS X will appear earlier than expected, sources say, which is good news for the company in a tough year.

Not just for the company, but for all computer users. OSX is quite simply a brilliant operating system. With each improvement, Apple goes down its asymtotic curve towards total bliss.

Hopefully, the judge won’t wimp out.

In a move that could bring Microsoft and the Justice Department closer to an approved settlement deal, a federal judge said Tuesday that both parties had complied with laws governing antitrust settlements.

How I long for the days of the real trust busters.

The plaintiff states are seeking for Microsoft to: sell a second version of Windows, from which middleware such as browsers and media players can be removed; license through auction its widespread Office software for use on competing operating systems; give away for free the source code, or blueprint, to its Internet Explorer Web browser; and carry in Windows for 10 years Sun Microsystems’ version of the Java Virtual Machine.

Unfortunately, this is only a baby step in the right direction. None of these actions are punative enough, and neither will they solve the core problem: that Microsoft is a predatory company with too much power because of its de-facto monopoly in the operating system market in conjunction with its de-facto monopoly in office productivity software. These two items must be separated for any true resolution to take place.

Moriarty from [[Ain’t it Cool News]] gives his thoughts on the latest in the long dead series.

I could go on, but I don’t have the heart. Suffice it to say that I hated this film, and I strongly urge you not to see it in the theater. Send the message to Dimension that you want them to STOP… RAPING… THE CORPSE… OF HALLOWEEN…

There was an exponential drop off in quality in these films, which means that eventhough the first one is a classic, the second is only mediocre. Anything after that is just a waste of celluloid and money.

The vulerability recently found in apache turns out to be not very vulnerable after all.

A program designed to infect vulnerable computers running the open-source Apache Web server application apparently hasn’t made it very far, security experts said Monday.

A quick thought… if this had been IIS, every machine on the planet would have been infected by now, and providers such as AT&T would have disabled port 80 (remember CODE RED?).

It’s about time somebody realized that the party is over!

Three years after Napster unleashed the first wave of music-trading over the Internet — and a full year after the company was shut down by a court order — the labels are coming to terms with the notion that Internet file-sharing is reshaping their business, and they must compete with piracy or risk losing a generation of customers.

From the first moment I saw Napster, I knew that the record industry was going to have to dramatically reshape itself if it was going to survive. It seems as though the studios have finally realized this!

Let’s hope Apple can make this work!

Apple today announced that it has begun shipping the company’s first rackmount server, the Xserve. Introduced in May, Apple said they have received over 4,000 orders for the product to date….
According to Apple, industry standard test shows the Xserve out-performed similarly configured severs from Dell, IBM and Sun.

It’s the rackmount server for the rest of us [[:-)]]