I’m not at all surprised, but horrified nonetheless.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001570019-2001603346,00.html

As they should…

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2835076,00.html

Amen!

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/20001/12/21/2002.html

There are some good quotes in that article too:

Napster is the fastest-adopted technology in human history.

Engineers understand that the difference between 95 percent and 96 percent reliability is often infinite.

The spare-time economy has yielded a bountiful harvest of weblogs, Photoshop tennis matches, homebrew Web services and dangerously Seattlean levels of garage-band activity.

They’ll be working to provide unreliable services that work in concert with other unreliable services to provide a service that works on average, but not predictably at any given moment.

This is pretty cool. Turn back the clock and see what the Web was like back in the day. Check out imdb in their list. It was a shell of its current incarnation. I actually remember when some of those other sites were like that.. like webcrawler.com and Yahoo!.

http://www.archive.org/

You really can get everything over the Internet, huh?

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=485613&in_review_text_id=442387

Using MSCONFIG and the page below you can do a very selective startup that really optimizes yoru comptuer’s resources and also speeds up your bootup.

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/l.htm