Archives for July 2002

http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-12/mysql_01.html

Great presentations from Jeremy’s OSCON presentation.  Am reading some older presentations now – awesome!

MySQL Presentations on-line now. The slides for the three major presentations I did for the 2002 O’Reilly Open Source Convention are now on-line. They… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]

Bing! We got lucky. Ed Cone lives in North Carolina’s 6th District. I think once I’m fully recovered, I’m going to devote myself to working with Ed, and people in the San Fernando Valley, to correct the problem in Washington. Can we raise $5 million for this? It would be worth it. I gotta believe we can eliminate one or two Congressmen to make the point that computer users can’t be taken for granted. [Scripting News]

So..  We deal with this all of the time anyway.  Put the fucker on trial.

Milosevic Ill; Genocide Trial Is Cast in Doubt. Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic suffers from severe heart disease and needs medical treatment, the U.N. war crimes tribunal announced on Thursday. By Marlise Simons. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

SpamAssassin Pro. “for MS Outlook 2000/XP is built on the most popular and successful anti-spam filtering software available: SpamAssassin.” ($19.95) [evhead]

Web security in academia. Whoa! How dumb is Princeton’s admissions office to do this? And how dumb are Yale’s web application developers (or buyers, if it isn’t a custom product) to use SSN, name, and bday for login information? Um, doy? You should both be held accountable for your FERPA violations. So should my health insurer, for using my SSN as my account number, but I’m not ready to sue them for that. Yet. 😉 [kerri News]

Why do they keep holding up judicial nominations?  It started under Clinton’s administration, but has continued under Bush as the democrats took over the Senate.  Whatever happened to the President’s privilege to pick and choose his/her nominees without undue influence? 

It’s driving me batty.

How controversial are you?. How controversial are you? Federal judicial nominees who have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and thus are now awaiting approval by the full Senate will soon learn the answer to that question. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle moments ago stated on the floor of the Senate that he saw no reason why all noncontroversial federal judicial nominees who have made it through the Judiciary Committee could not have confirmation votes before the full Senate by the end of next week. [How Appealing]