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It has been a very unusual week in IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime and actual crime. What’s this world coming to? Here’s our line up of the ugly side of IT.

Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident and DNS attack code out in wild: After a computer security company inadvertently posted details online of a major flaw in the Internet DNS (Domain Name System), it was just a matter of time before the attack code made the rounds.

San Francisco DA discloses city’s network passwords and San Francisco’s mayor gets back keys to the network: Arguing in a court motion against a defense request to decrease the US$5 million bail in the case of Terry Childs, the San Francisco district attorney publicly revealed usernames and passwords of the city’s network.

Fugitive spam king dead in apparent murder-suicide: Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who walked away from a minimum-security prison camp Sunday, was found dead Thursday in his hometown of Bennett, Colorado, after he shot his wife, their 3-year-old daughter and himself in an apparent murder-suicide.

Microsoft’s online woes hint at larger vulnerability and Microsoft exec leaving to become Juniper CEO: Microsoft reorganized the division that oversees its Online Services Business and Windows OS, splitting Platform and Services to separate the distinct product lines.

Not a good week in news for IT. Let’s hope next week brings some cheers!
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Making the jump to Linux is making more sense all the time. Now with the stable release of WINE 1.0, you can run most of your favorite Windows applications on the Linux platform.

The main reason a lot of people have held off from changing over to Linux is for just that reason. It’s hard to want to relearn a new software as extensive as Photoshop, so we just stay with Windows or Mac because it’s more comfortable. Not to mention time saving when there’s a business decision involved. But WINE claims that Photoshop CS2 runs on Linux with it installed on your machine, along with 10,336 other Windows based applications.

The biggest problem for them is going to be keeping up with the changes and upgrades to Window’s operating system. And to make it even more difficult, keeping up with the software changes to the individual applications themselves.

A little bit about WINE.
WINE (WIN Emulator). The name is actually derived from the acronym Wine IS Not An Emulator. The project has been in the development stage now for 15 years. The project has proven to be very time-consuming and difficult for the developers because of the continuous advances in software technology. Wine is always going to be having to play “catch-up”!
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