The reanimated spectre of XLink  There's some talk at the W3C
about possible continued development of XLink. (For some
background, be sure to read this first: )  The always-amazing
Bob DuCharme has covered this nicely in his blog, but I couldn't
resist commenting. Link: -m  Linux security myths  Microsoft's
Nick McGrath was recently quoted as saying "One myth we see is
that Linux is more secure than Windows." Linux security may be a
myth, but Windows insecurity is a documented fact. A company
called Secunia tracks a number of hardware and software
vulnerabilities. Under their page for "Microsoft Windows XP
Professional with all vendor patches installed and all vendor
workarounds applied", they list a total of 80 advisories, 20 of
which are still unpatched to this day. The highest level is
"highly critical", and several of them date back to 2002. Link:
Linux fares much better. SUSE 9.0 has 57 advisories listed, only
2 unpatched with the highest "less critical". Link: The newer
SUSE 9.1 and 9.2 both have zero