] Earlier this month, I described a friend of mine who was
] responsible for a corporate network notable for its aging
] applications infrastructure. At the end of the column
] I proposed a contest and asked you all to send in your
] own entries to qualify for the "oldest living software"
] application. Needless to say, I got some great entries.

And I thought our accounting system was old.

Winners Of The 'Oldest Software' Contest

] Hiring in the information technology field is expected to
] remain soft through 2003--despite any recovery waiting in
] the wings, according to a survey released Monday by an IT
] trade group.
]
] Sixty-seven percent of hiring managers surveyed
] anticipate hiring demands to remain the same or decline
] during the next 12 months, according to the Information
] Technology Association of America. The ITAA surveyed 400
] hiring managers from technology and nontechnology
] companies between March 27 and April 14.
]
] The managers surveyed are expecting to hire a cumulative
] total of 493,000 IT workers over the next 12 months,
] compared with 1.1 million positions anticipated over the
] same period when the survey was conducted early last
] year.
]
]
] Of the IT positions that companies plan to fill, a number
] will be for jobs overseas, according to the survey. An
] increasing number of companies, including Hewlett-Packard
] and IBM, are moving work offshore, where labor is
] cheaper.

I love my job... I love my job... I love my job... Just gotta keep saying it, and maybe I'll believe it...

IT hiring lackluster through 2003 | CNET News.com

] Null said he discovered the vulnerability at Apple.com
] using the "view source" option in his Web browser while
] visiting a section of the online store designed to help
] people who have forgotten their passwords.
]
] After submitting his e-mail address, as requested by the
] system, Null said he noticed that Apple was hiding a
] string of letters and numbers in the source code to one
] of the pages designed to confirm users' identities.
]
] By cutting and pasting that "hash" into a separate page
] for specifying the new password, Null was able to change
] his password without answering the secret question used
] to authenticate him.

Well, at least Apple didn't want to arrest the guy.

Wired News: Apple Squashes E-Store ID Bug

Kinda adds new dimension to the tech term "fat pipe", no? :]

] The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long,
] so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000
] base pairs.
]
] Each side of these base pairs can either be an
] adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can
] be aligned either direction, so there are four choices.
] Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully
] represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine,
] and so forth.
]
] The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a
] human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million.
] I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells,
] but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.
]
] Putting these together, the average amount of information
] per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which
] comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000
] terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the
] entire text content of the Library of Congress to be
] scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20
] terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five
] seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In
] comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up
] much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s.
] Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th
] of that.
]
] If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come out
] much differently. If only the single sperm cell that fertilizes
] the egg counts as signal, you get (1.560*109 * 2 bits) / 5 s =
] 6.24*108 bits/s, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 Mb/s.
] Still a great deal more bandwidth than your average cable modem,
] but not nearly the 5,000,000 Mb/s of the OC-96.

Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems