Netsky 10, Bagle 9 ....

Just wading my way through the latest carnage to hit the bits ......

As we pick our way through our filters and virus scans we learn that the latest Netsky disables any instance of Bagle.

Just who is doing this? Is this a God vs. Satan deathmatch?

I'm really confused and tired of all this SPAM.....

This is your fate, Dell-Sun ......

Wow - this could really be scary!!!

<a posting from networkfusion>

Today's focus: Sun could be perfect acquisition for Dell

By David Vande Casteele

It is no secret that Sun has been in a steep decline, and now it
appears that CEO Scott McNealy is getting it ready for the
auction block. Before you hit the "Delete" key, consider this:
Why lay off almost 10% of your workforce the same day that your
company wins a multibillion-dollar lawsuit? Maybe to set your
company up for a takeover.

That sure seems like a possible outcome when you consider the
performance of Sun over the past couple of years. But who would
want what's left of a once-successful tech powerhouse? Maybe
Michael Dell.

Dell's team has been enjoying quite a bit of good press and
solid financial performance during a period when many of the
tech players have been struggling. The trick in tech is not just
getting out in front, but also staying there. Dell has been
successful in the pursuit of dominating the PC market and is
trying to penetrate the lucrative server market. Picking up Sun
could be just the ticket to success in servers and the bulk that
Dell needs to go after the likes of IBM and HP.

Sun is struggling for its life and needs help now. Although the
company will receive almost $2 billion in cash from the
Microsoft settlement, it may not be enough to stay alive, and it
certainly won't solve the other critical issues that Sun faces.
Although beaten badly in the market, Sun does have some powerful
assets that Dell would find valuable.

First, Sun's services business is one of its bright spots and
could boost Dell's top line by almost 10% and contribute a
valuable component to its product mix. Technology-related
services are highly profitable and are required for any vendor
seeking to do business with Fortune 1000 companies. Not only
would the services be important to CIOs everywhere, but with
Sun's high-end servers and the cadre of customers, it would also
give Dell additional credibility.

Also key to Dell becoming a credible alternative to HP and IBM
is having a set of tools to manage the systems that it sells.
Acquisition of Sun would give Dell an interesting portfolio of
management tools as well as some significant intellectual
capital around them.

Advancing technological leadership from Sun's significant annual
expenditure in R&D would be an additional strength brought on by
an acquisition. Couple the advancements made by Sun's R&D
efforts with Dell's penchant for low-cost manufacturing and
distribution, and you have a powerhouse with market momentum.

Finally, Sun's international presence would be one last valuable
asset for Dell, which up this point has only dabbled offshore.
The international markets continue to present opportunity and
Dell would eventually need to be sell there if it wants to truly
compete with the other two players in the ring today.

With the integration of these key elements, Dell would become a
real threat to HP and would be positioned to challenge the Big
Blue Machine.

M-LAW's Wacky Warning Labels

nbc13.com - Technology - Google's Free E-Mail: Real Or April Fool's Prank?

Looking for a nice place to live?

How about something different? - an Italian Castle?

Bored? How about buying 100 lbs. of Silly Putty?

Think of the possibilities!!!

When you donate that old shirt, where will it end up?

Independent Lens . T-SHIRT TRAVELS . The Film | PBS

Sun's Project LookingGlass: interesting 3D desktops - video with Jonathan Schwartz

Is this really the "Wave of the Future"" ???

Yorkshire Couple Named Baby Diot Coke - in 1379

No truth to the rumor that her older brother was named "Tab"

Future's Past ....

A very interesting scene scrolled past my TV screen this week as I watched the latest installment of Star Trek: Enterprise. During a scene where Dr. Phlox is watching an "old movie" in the Mess Hall, the movie being shown is none other than my favorite movie of all time, "The Court Jester". It was quite a shock and a thrill to see this on Star Trek.

Imagine that my favorite TV show of all time and my favorite movie of all time are now permanently linked in cyberspace.

Thanks to the Great White Bird.....

AT&T Trips Up SCO - Computerworld

Don't Sing at Work!!!

Some people just steal material (in this case from SNL) and run with it...

This is well done... (audio needed)
Charlie Brown Hey Ya

Did you miss it?

Here's what everyone is talking about...

and of course, CBS and MTV disavow any knowledge...

and the FCC is investigating because they have nothing better
to do.

Deep Impact: Send Your Name to a Comet!

End of an Era...

Yahoo! News - Kodak to Stop Selling Traditional Cameras in U.S.

Slashdot | Linksys DVD player w/ WiFi and ethernet

Limecat!

Fark calls this the "Turduckhen of cars"

eBay item 2451973337 (Ends Jan-11-04 14:37:18 PST) - Mercedes-Benz : Limousine / RV

Switch to... uh, well...

Rasta Imposta introduces the latest in fashions!!!

Be afraid, be very afraid...

Riiiiiiiiiiiight..

You can get a Mini-Me for only one meeeeeeeelion dolla...... eh??

Sorry,


$249.


Ouch.


Seems high....

Hey!!!

I'm as good as ol' Pablo ......


Where did you leave your Mr. Picassohead??

Well - Now we know what's happening with Chris .....

Chris Pirillo live on Unscrewed on TechTV .....

Winning Poems for the demise of Jennicam...

"Ahh, look at all the lonely people..."

fly the 'copter...

Chris Pirillo visits the G... too bad we're no longer there...

pacmanƒpƒbƒNƒ}ƒ“

Maybe there's 12 days until THAT, but more importantly, it' s only
TWO days until... THIS.

For reviews and spoilers, see HERE.

Planet DeBella - Holiday Humor:

"Top Ten Least Beloved Holiday TV Specials
10.'The Grinch Who Stole Grandpa's Heart Medication'
9.'The World's Bloodiest Furby Riots'
8.'It's An Even More Wonderful Life If You're Rich'
7.'For The Love Of God And Everything Holy, Change Your Shirt, Charlie Brown'
6.'Hanukkah With Monica'
5.'Emeril Lagasse Spit-Roasts Blitzen Live'
4.'Ernest Borgnine's Mistletoe Kiss-A-Palooza'
3.'The House Of Representatives' Impeachment Proceeding And Holiday Hoe-Down'
2.'Kenneth Starr Subpoenas Santa Claus'
1.'Let's Biopsy' "

12 Shopping days left until .....

Today my thoughts are extraterrestrial. How small one feels when one thinks of the vastness of space. It makes you wonder about humanity. And how projects like this, in a small way, brings humanity together for a single purpose, and this time in the name of science.

Two Dials, One Sun is something that every inner geek can get his mouse cord around.

So, come on! Join in the human equation, set up your webcam, decorate your dial and be one with the cosmos!

One man's quest to keep seniors fit;

Leo Fong, 75, is a retired United Methodist minister, a 10th-degree black belt in martial arts and the founder of the mind-body martial-arts fitness program Chi-Fung, which he teaches to seniors in Tarzana, Chatsworth and Pacoima.

L.A. Daily News - Health

He was the star in THIS great film (which I worked on in Manila twenty-five years ago)

It's all about Sun.

I'm wire-free and lovin' it!!!



Cerritos, CA - now the offical largest site of the Wi-Fi world!!!!

Finally available! The PowerPoint slides that were promised...
Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication

A poem

I knew that the Matrix wasn't real!!! It was a copy!!!!

This is the real thing!

Did you see this?

and...
this is obvious

I love stuff like this...
Church Sign Generator

This is way cool, but it's going to be cooler if they improve the vocabulary...

Let them sing it for you

The website of the ages. Where you can get all those wonderful movies that you missed in your youth.


www.somethingweird.com

For some strange reason, I don't seem to remember any of these, however.......

Interesting - this guy says he "owns" Eros (the asteroid) and
therefore NASA owes him $20 for parking on it, "in space #29".

And it's serious enough that it's going to court.

Eros Project: Home Page

An Official Dress Code I wish they had when I was in school...

Funniest video of 2003!


Please tune in and see what I mean!

Have you seen the Nokia N-Gage Phone/game console?

well, see:
Totally Sidetalkin' Nokia N-Gage Style!! SIDETALKING 2003

check out the
HiRes Photo of the So Cal Fires...

Error.
Smart Capture

Ok, this is what you want for your home system and your work system....

9X Media - X-Top Expert 10 multiple LCD multiple monitor 5 over 5 configuration

New Internet speed record set by European and U.S. labs - Computerworld

OR

23,403,509 pieces of spam per minute.

The pr0n operators rejoice.

Starve at a spa, for only $3484 a week!
Herald.com - Your Miami Everything Guide

Brian Mung: Blaineman?

Why the DMCA is a bad thing...

SunnComm won't sue grad student | CNET News.com

Is there no such thing as bad publicity? At least in this case, I'm sure sales are UP...
CNN.com - 'Ghettopoly' game causes outrage - Oct. 9, 2003

Rudy Park has a good idea for Orange County...

The Beatles get naked !!!!

A new job opening posted on Sun Microsystems' Web site confirms the company's growing aspirations to roll out servers based on AMD's Opteron processor.

The Register

Yahoo! News - Am I on fire or is it just German TV?

funny...
Pen stuck

Hours of Fun!!!!

Celebrity Transform

Following a theme...

Celebrities with and without makeup.

This is extremely instructive; look how much models get retouched... they don't really look like that...

Greg's Digital Portfolio

Confessions of a Spam King
(free NYTimes registration required)

Cingular GSM network knocked off-line, 900,000 customers affected - Computerworld

Actually, someone tripped over a power cord...
(probably the same guy who knocked over that satellite)

Hard to believe it's been 20 years...

Stallman's announcment: Free Unix!

Well, DUH!!!!

The Gospel of Tux (1.0)

And that's not all


MORE!

Big news....

sacbee.com -- Politics -- Gov. Davis signs churro legislation

Search by Location (Google Weblog)

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

Because they can ........



VT Rocks!!!!!!

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Love (The $50 Porsche)

what a moron...

or as fark.com put it, "Man believes yoga will protect him from shark bite, hilarity ensues and Discovery Channel films it"

sonofabitch.com - son of a bitch

SlashNOT - Satire for nerds. Geek humor that matters. A parody of Slashdot.

Phil Bradley's Great SPAM Experiment. How do we get spam?

TODAY IS International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Arrrrr!

Prepare to be Boarded!

The Beatles Let It Be Naked

The Apple Powerbook has been updated!

It is totally awesome - but don't let my gentle diatrible sway you ...

Its specs are more impressive.

Get yours now (but not before I get mine...)

FINALLY!!!
Canon EOS Digital Rebel review by PC Magazine

Chris Pirillo has made the BIG TIME...

A collection of old but interesting articles from such magazines as Creative Computing (was always my favorite), etc....

Classic Computer Magazine Archive

See some singled out articles at Some Days you Eat the Bear

Today's theme: Fun Stuff!!!

'nuff said!

Hey, watch it, don't... ahhhhggghh - Whoops!!!

Oh shit. Uh, I was just leaning against this and...

hey kid...

Dead Parrot Sketch: "Owner: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords. "

End of an Era ...

This man, Bill Joy, who gave the UNIX community so much of what it now takes for granted in a UNIX OS, is leaving Sun Microsystems after 21 years of service.

Let's hope this doesn't darken Sun's skies ....

Slow day - nothing to say.



Except that.


.... and that.



.... and that....


...... and ....




help?!

Your post is a tedious, homogenised, chameleon-esque scribble which amounts to nothing more than the demented cacophonous racket of a drugged lunatic banging loudly on kitchen pots and pans. Try learning elementary grammar before attempting to inflict your next literary abomination on this message board.

If brains were gasoline, you wouldn't have enough to drive an ant's Go-cart around the inside of a bottle cap. You couldn't get a clue during clue mating season in a field of clues if you smeared your body in musk and did the clue mating dance. Anyway, who was talking to you or even taking you under consideration? As Abba Eban so aptly said: "His ignorance is encyclopedic."

You light up a room when you leave it. No doubt your life is so dull, that you can actually write your diary one week in advance. Is there anything I need to know about you other than your a grungy social outcast? Maybe you wouldn't read like such a pathetic loser if you weren't so stupid that even single-celled organisms out score you in IQ tests; if your weren't so fat that your cereal bowl has its own lifeguard, or if you weren't uglier than the north-facing end of a south-bound mule. Nah, of course you would.

In future, if you have something to say, just shut up.

rant courtesy of
Insult Monger...

OK - now it's fixed.


There's just no safe blogging anymore .... :-(



But I wanna know ......



WHO STOLE MY "B"????????

Why is this a "Ramling Remblog" - why not a "Rambling Remblog?"

Does anyone read this?

shout out to show you care....

also, see my NEW Slashdotty-like blog, jeffdot.blogdot.org, brought to you by the wonderful country of... uh, Portugal. Anyone can post... any topic.

I caught a few episodes of this - and it was great!
This is good news...

'Firefly' lands in film afterlife

The latest accessory for your Hummer...

Bumpernuts

Operation TIPS-TIPS: Report TIPS informants

AtomFilms - Ahhnold for Governor!

Whoa!!! White House Subs (of Atlantic City fame) in VEGAS??

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: LIVING: COLUMN: TASTE OF THE TOWN: Heidi Knapp Rinella

Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19