Literal Barrage

If you have even a passing interest in the history of operating systems, then you owe yourself a look at the comprehensive timeline of UNIX's existence.
Dang. Just try to follow some of those OS family trees…

Ahhhh, Sony BMG, how we love to hate thee! Not only have you been caught installing unauthorized rootkits on your customers' PCs, but it's been found that you're illegally using LGPL'd software to do so.
Tsk tsk. What's the Japanese word for schadenfreude, anyways?
Anti-Competitive Update #1: Via Fark, we find out that Sony [...]

Microsoft trusts its own technology, as any user of MS products will readily attest to. The compilers they release to the general public are feature-filled and rarely compromised by bugs of staggering size and scope. They are also unequivocal in their disdain for Linux, thus it comes as no surprise that the new wireless [...]

Slashdot: finally moving to CSS-based layout, and not a momentfive years too late.
Heh. Maybe it'll finally render correctly in Firefox, for a change.

As previously noted in this space, the Google Mini isn't exactly a model of openness. I'd always assumed that it ran a version of Linux as its operating system, but was never quite sure.
That is, until today. Google issued a security alert and a subsequent patch to address XSS vulnerabilities. [...]

What a fun work day today was!
</sarcasm>
It started off with a false virus alarm due to a bad .dat from NAI and then was followed by all manner of meetings and teleconferences regarding the recent failure of one of our business-critical systems. I spent the afternoon attending an internal business software design meeting and [...]

Now a question for my technologically astute readers out there: is there a Mac equivalent to PSPad out there? Owen originally pointed me in the direction of PSPad and man, does it kick butt! The only problem is that it's Windows-only.
Before you get started, yes, I know about BBEdit. There's only one big [...]