14 February 2003

Yeah Hypercard Was Great 9 Years Ago: HyperCard 2.2: The Great Becomes Greater : HyperCard 2.2 is here! HyperCard was what chiefly convinced me to buy my first Mac; I still regard it as the neatest, most useful, most generous program ever conceived. Generous because it was originally given away free (no more, alas!); generous because it lets you program the Mac yourself, easily and powerfully. (TidBITS via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 2:33:54 PM     Very Friggin Naughty What Symantec Knew But Didn't Say. Security experts are fuming about a Symantec press release indicating the company knew about the devastating Slammer worm hours before the general public did. The company shared the knowledge with select customers but kept mum with everybody else. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 2:26:17 PM     No doubt about it News.Com: "Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source Java application servers, such as Tomcat and JBoss, have eaten into the revenue of commercial providers of Java application servers. But the growing popularity of the open-source application servers is undeniable." [Scripting News] 2:23:23 PM

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