Glucon Glucose Monitoring Watch. Israeli company Glucon has received a patent for their Glucose Monitoring Watch, which uses an ultrasound unit to identify blood vessels in the arm, then pinging the vein with a laser to determine sugar levels. Once Glucon can bring their watch to market, millions of diabetes patients will be able to [...]

Experts: Global Warming Is Real. Studies that measure ocean temperature rather than air temperature are more accurate in determining whether the climate is changing, scientists say. And the newest studies conclude that the planet is warming up, and people are to blame for it. [Wired News]

Nope, still hate it. I still hate Java. A little more every day.Spending my free time working on Snippy in Python is definitely increasing the hatred. I agree with Paul Graham. [Ceejbot]

Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.. Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid. Be very afraid.. Microsoft security researchers are warning about a new generation of powerful system monitoring programs, or “rootkits,” that are almost impossible to detect using current security products and that could pose a serious risk to corporations and individuals. [InfoWorld: Top [...]

Pirated Windows to Remain Unpatched. From the Associated Press: Microsoft Corp. plans to severely curtail the ways in which people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system can receive software updates, including security fixes. The new authentication system, announced Tuesday and due to arrive by midyear, will still allow people with pirated copies [...]

Everyone who sells software should have this information. When starting a microISV, many people do marketing the old fashioned way. Trial and error. With that in mind, I thought that many of you would be interested in knowing some statistics on things like “which day is best for downloads” or “on what day are most [...]

ChoicePoint ain't the victim here. I'm so freaking sick of today's headlines claiming that “hackers” somehow broke into ChoicePoint's (obscenely comprehensive) consumer databases and obtained information which allowed them to then steal people's identities. This is a story that's been discussed on Dave Farber's Interesting People mailing list since yesterday, and the truth of the [...]

Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX. Johan Sørensen has put together a great guide for getting lighttpd 1.3.10 running on OS X. All the steps needed to have lighttpd serving a FCGI-powered application. This is particularly exciting now since the next version of Rails will be even better suited for running on lighttpd through the introduction [...]

Novell's Open Source Collaboration Server.  Novell is contributing its NetMail server code base to create a new open source collaboration server, Hula . Hula will support CalDAV, and is currently tested to be robust and scalable for up to 200,000 accounts with 50,000 concurrent connections on a single Linux server. Having this kind of server [...]

Microsoft forced by security concerns to fix IE browser. Bill Gates announced a new, more secure version of Microsoft Internet Explorer this week in response to general public dissatisfaction with holes in the browser and to particular worries that the open source Firefox browser was emerging as a strong alternative. Gates, Microsoft's Chairman and Chief [...]