Posts by D. H. McKee

BEA rethinks its WebLogic software

BEA Systems will seek to reposition its WebLogic line as a Swiss Army knife for business software development when it launches a major upgrade to its flagship products in the first half of next year.
Code-named Gibraltar, the upcoming version of WebLogic is intended to strengthen the application integration and portal features of the company's Java application server and integrate closely with BEA's development tool, WebLogic Workshop. BEA and IBM are battling for the top spot in the market for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers, which let companies build Web-based business software.

DVD-hacking teen pleads innocent

OSLO.Norwegian teenager Jon Lech Johansen pleaded innocent yesterday to breaking data security laws in the first day of a widely watched trial over a program that unlocks the security codes of DVDs.
Johansen was 15 when he wrote and distributed for free on the Internet a program that unlocks copy-protected DVDs, giving Hollywood nightmares and making him a folk hero among hackers.

Americans take pot-shots against Canada

What Canadians think does matter to Americans. In certain circumstances at certain times.
My evidence for saying this is that I've culled those quotes from the some 1,400 e-mails sent to me as a result of my column of last Sunday titled, "It's not our fault that we're morally superior to Americans."

Evil Stickers

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Whoah dude, check out these rad stickers. Unfortunately, this website has a ton of lame-ass and religious stuff. Keep to the Evil section. It's by far the best bunch of stickers on this site. Some of them make great tattoo ideas as well.

Many little posts

Wow. It's been a long time between postings, no? Sooooo many things going on right now, what with work, play, and my beloved TV. So I'm going to put in a few posts at once so we get up to date on what's happening with Zuckervati.

The Hottest Sauces in the World

This page is an attempt to list the hottest sauces in the world. To give you an idea of their heat - Tabasco sauce is rated at 2,140 scoville units while 'Caldera' is over 10,000,000! If you like dancing chile peppers and crappy 1996-style websites, then this site is for you!

Should you spy on your employees?

According to an American Management Association report, 78 percent of major U.S. firms record and review employee communications and activities, including phone calls, e-mail, Internet activity, and computer files (this number is double what it was in 1997). Twenty-two percent of the companies that engage in these activities don't tell their employees they are doing so. While the 78 percent of companies that monitor employees may be a surprising number to many folks, what should be of bigger interest is the 22 percent of companies that do not notify employees of corporate monitoring.

FBI: Hacker stole 80,000 credit cards

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police, aided by the FBI, arrested an Israeli suspected of hacking into computers of a U.S.-based electronics company and stealing personal information, including the credit card numbers of some 80,000 customers, according to court document released Sunday.

Exclusive DISCT@2 Technology

DiscT@2 is an exclusive Yamaha feature that allows text and images to be drawn on the unused portion of a CD-R disc. You can now etch a memo, your signature, photo thumbnails or your company's logo right onto the bottom of the disc.

Town pins hopes on giant lava lamp

Halfway down the road to becoming a ghost town, Soap Lake is one of many communities trying to wring money out of a dried-up town. Folks out here are looking for something . anything . to bring on a little revitalization.
Like maybe a proposed $3 million, 60-foot lava lamp.