Jesse Ezell Blog

“Hmm.. Now this recent blog makes sense: Microsoft employee was fired after posting pictures of Apple G5 computers been delivered to Microsoft .. hehe. Mabe they are allready testing their new Xbox 2 platform on the G5's *wink*” [1]

“Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will ditch its Intel chip in favor of the same kind of chip used in Apple's Macs -- an IBM PowerPC processor -- IBM and Microsoft announced on Monday.

Lots of talk lately about exploiting the GPU and using up all that raw power that idles almost all day long. Microsoft wants to eat up those cycles with flashy graphics, these guys have a different idea.

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Its about to begin...

I don't see what the big deal is here. The guy blatantly violated MS security policies. Yes, the picture was quite innocent, but here is the deal. You can't just go around snapping photos of stuff arriving on trucks to Microsoft. If the guy had in any way been a valuble employee, he probably would have gotten away with a slap on the wrist. However, he was just a temp anyway, which means he is disposable. My question is, when the hell did a tech get the idea that he could just go around snapping photos of stuff arriving on trucks and posting them to his weblog? What if the stuff in question had been delivered under some NDA or something?

“Lap around Longhorn: Chris Anderson and Don Box provide a code-centric, high level walk through of the main pillars of Longhorn.” [1]

"The Free Software Foundation is the only entity that can enforce the GPL so, in effect, IBM is barred from trying to enforce the GPL with SCO," wrote Blake Stowell, a SCO spokesman, in an e-mail response to questions.