07 Sep 2002
Sat, 07 Sep 2002
Seattle Times: Loan To Former Microsoft Exec Questionable
The Seattle Times reports that a 15 million dollar loan from Microsoft to former Microsoft Executive Rick Belluzzo is coming under scrutiny in the current scandalous compensation environment.
Sanford Jacoby, a professor of management at UCLA said, "It's not really a question of whether it's big or small, it's whether it passes the smell test. In the current environment, it doesn't quite smell right. Would a corporate board that is exercising close scrutiny today give its approval to something like that? I'm not sure."
Posted at: 17:20 | permalink
Movable Type 2.5
The Movable Type folks have announced the feature list for Movable Type 2.5. Looks good. The improvements in the variety of pings that can be sent raise the question of blocking on the pings. Can you say asynchronous ping proxy? Thanks to Ben and Mena.
Posted at: 11:35 | permalink
JBoss port 8083 login-config.xml Bug
I documented a bug in JBoss 3.x this morning that appears to be quite a large security hole. If you're running a JBoss 3.x server in a production environment, I'd be very careful with port 8083. Right now, an HTTP GET request to that port, returns malformed XML revealing the data sources, userids, and passwords from login-config.xml. Ouch.
Posted at: 10:42 | permalink
