] There's recently been a great deal of talk about Windows
] for x86-64. One interesting feature of this operating
] system is that modifying the system structure is
] forbidden
...
] The stack cannot be used in kernel mode unless expressly
] permitted by the kernel. The operating system will also
] check certain parts of kernel code for integrity, and
] modifying these parts of code will cause a Blue Screen of
] Death. This last check is performed only on native AMD64
] systems (but not on Intels' EM64T clones).
...
] So the good news is that the majority of today's rootkits
] will be unable to function in kernel mode under this new
] operating system

The promise of this kind of technology has been a long-time
coming. On the other hand, Microsoft is now willing to break
compatibility in the name of security, and going to a new chipset
means they can better rely on the availability of certain features
that have been being added bit by bit to modern processors. It
was never clear how best to take advantage of certain modes that
were available only on certain processors. If AMD and Intel are
in operating agreement on 64bit chips, though, then maybe we'll
actually see this stuff implemented at all levels.

Viruslist.com - Analyst's Diary

] These web pages are about a project I've been working on.
] Put briefly, it's a WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network)
] router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box
] that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for
] multiple computers to use.

Couple of these projects have come out. This is a well written page about building one.

EVDO StompBox Project

] My source tells me that Ultimate Vitality is one of the
] more popular pharmacy merchants among super affiliates.
] According to this story, Jude Lacour, who's company owns
] such properties as epharmacist.com, instantpills.com and
] pillstore.com was not arrested, but the sites were all
] down on Tuesday.

Major Online Pharmacy Merchant hit by Feds | Threadwatch.org

] Lists without any blah blah!
] Secure, simple, sharable to-do lists.

To Do with Bla-bla List: Simple sharable to-do lists. To-do list, todo list, task manager, task list, todo task, easy list, simple todo, free todo list manager.

] One interesting thing about starting a company today
] versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now
] available that you can more or less run you company on.

evhead: Running your company on web apps

] Sxip Identity provides identity management solutions that
] leverage the Sxip Network and drive Identity 2.0
] infrastructure. Sxip empowers individuals to create and
] manage their online digital identities and enables
] enterprises to instantly provision and manage their
] users.

Sxip Identity, An Identity 2.0 Company

] And now we reach the end of the path. Adobe's competitors
] now aren't Quark or Viewpoint (formerly Metacreations and
] other names before that). Their competitors are Apple and
] Microsoft. While they strive to release software that
] works on both platforms, they're being eaten at the top
] by Apple's professional video tools and the bottom by
] Microsoft's and Apple's home layout and photo tools.

This was a historical summary of Adobe versus Macromedia I was looking for yesterday.

ExtraBITS

] We've barely moved forward since those days of word
] processors and spreadsheets. Since 1988, the only major
] new software categories that have been created are email,
] IM, browsers and blogging tools. For all the flack, noise
] and supposed development -- we have barely innovated
] the initial concept of what a tool is.

The New Paradigm of Tools

] Now we've got launchd. The idea now is that instead of
] making the user wait for a bunch of services to start, we
] let launchd fire them both in parallel and
] asynchronously.
]
] I don't want to get extremely specific here for reasons I
] hope are obvious, but on modern (i.e., dual-G5) hardware,
] the time from the end of power-on tests and the
] initialization of Open Firmware to the menu bar and dock
] appearing and the system accepting user input is as
] little as four seconds.
]
] Four seconds to cold-boot the operating system.

A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along?

] I don't want to blow anything out of proportion, but
] think of Spotlight as being kind of like the first
] bitmapped graphics. What we're doing with it right now is
] cool. But what's really important is what it enables us
] to do in the future.

Neat discussion of some of the thoughts of where integrated filesystem/search can get you, from an Apple employee...

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