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The Bush pardons.

Looks like Bill Clinton wasn’t a pioneer in giving out suspect pardons. Bush senior was playing that game well before him.

Linked on the 27th of February, 2001 Details

Scientific American: Apple Juice: It Does a Heart Good

The old adage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" is close to the truth, just make it two apples, or about 1 litre of apple juice.

Linked on the 25th of February, 2001 Details

Vcard exploit patch.

Microsoft has released a patch for the Vcard exploit in outlook.

Linked on the 25th of February, 2001 Details

Cnet News: Music labels to ISPs: Shut down Napster clones

The offensive has begun. After the Napster victory, the RIAA is now requesting ISPs shut down copycat systems like OpenNap. I wonder how they’ll get around Gnutella and OpenNap servers in countries they don’t have a stranglehold on.

Linked on the 24th of February, 2001 Details

Wired News: Beware those insidious Vcards

Another Outlook security hole has been discovered. Those annoying Vcards (you know, the .vcf attachments no one looks at) can be used to crash or remotely control your computer.

Linked on the 24th of February, 2001 Details

World Online

Employees of Belgian ISP World Online [archive] have gone on strike and taken over the company’s website in protest at the job cuts being planned by Italian company Tiscali [archive] which recently bought them out. The long Belgian tradition of strikes has gone virtual, you can even watch the strike on a live video stream.

Linked on the 23rd of February, 2001 Details