Month August 2004

IBM tells users not to install Windows XP update In a note headlined “To patch — or not to patch” posted Friday on its corporate intranet, IBM tells its employees not to download SP2 when it becomes available because of…

Jobs up, pay way down in Wisconsin While the Bushies say the economy is improving because of new job creation, things look different in Wisconsin. Yes, there are new jobs being created, however they pay much less than all the…

The biggest new adopters of Linux are The public sector in developing countries!

The election Bush approval ratings: raw poll data. Down, down, down Nader fails to make California ballot State election officials said Nader fell far short of the 153,035 signatures needed by Friday’s deadline. He submitted 82,923 with 56 of the…

Windows XP SP2 Service Pack 2 for XP has been released. It is will be a monster download from the Microsoft servers, and way too big for dial-up accounts to download in any reasonable amount of time. They will need to get the…