Roundups

Some call it performance art, but is it real? Does it matter? Have a good read.

Magical Vista Tour
It's begun: the psychological warfare predicted on these pages as those software engineering geniuses - and convicted monopolists - get closer to unleashing their next cataclysmic bomb on the planet.

Seattle Weather Channel
Morton: When it rains, it pours. Dennis: It rains nine months a year in Seattle. Annie: I know!

Anatomy of a Coverup
How angels stay clean and scandals stay silent.

XP - How Bad Is It?
Well, it's pretty bad, little friend. Here are a few things you should read and know if you intend to operate it.

Apple
Do all roads lead to Cupertino?

Fibergate
Wall Street melts down - welcome to the feast.

Yahoo! - From Four11 To Absolute Zero
When Yahoo bought the Four11 corporation for $94 million they got more than extensive databases - they got the most sophisticated webmail engine in the world. Now, years later, the screw-ups at Yahoo have managed to take this engine and almost completely ruin it.

The Vulture and the Penguin
It all began in 1998 when a goodhearted Microsoft employee came upon a remarkable series of top secret documents and smuggled them out.

Code Red
This crafty piece of code which exploited a hole which should never have been allowed to exist proved once again that the Internet is the best venue imaginable for real life performance art.

The Rise and Fall of GRC
GRC's swansong began a year to the day after the Love Bug but sceptics are saying anything but 'ILOVEYOU' to Steve Gibson.

Cyberwar!
Well it's finally hit, and it's been a long time coming - and even though some sources suspect it's mostly the media stirring the pot there's evidence tensions between the US and China have been escalating for some time and that this is genuine.

X-file 14.5KB
Lean and mean is one thing, but when the most integral program on your desktop can be rewritten to take less than fifteen kilobytes disk space, you've got a sensation.

ILOVEYOU
It was a disaster waiting to happen - the world was on its knees begging for it.

The Electronic Soft Drink Market
First it was Yahoo and Pepsi, now it's Coke and the redoubtable AOL.

Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Both Jim Barksdale and Scott McNealy, CEOs of the principal victims of the Microsoft Monopoly Bash, have already gone public and recommended the US government break Microsoft up. But this is highly unlikely despite its clear 'return on investment'.

Jackson's Hammer
Judge TP let it fall - on Bill and the boys. He didn't exactly mince words either. Microsoft stock dropped US$80 billion, Bill's personal wealth fell US$12 billion, Microsoft dropped behind GE and Cisco, even Starbucks felt the crunch - and NASDAQ had its worst one day drop ever.

It's All Yahoo
CERT warned about them; find out how they were used to knock out some of the world's most trafficked websites.

Why We Don't Upgrade to Win2K
Let's face it: Microsoft's products can be very cool. But sometimes it's best to wait a bit. Here's why we're in doubt.

Best of the Millennium
Picks for the best of everything for the past one thousand years.