Comcast Makes Unsolicited Bid for Disney (AP)

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Comcast Makes Unsolicited Bid for Disney
(Reuters)

Comcast Makes Unsolicited Bid for Disney
(Reuters) 02/11/2004 11:01 AM
Reuters - Comcast Corp. (CMCSA.O) on Wednesday launched an unsolicited bid to buy Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N) for more than $54 billion in stock to join the largest U.S. cable operator with one of the most storied U.S. media companies known for its film studio and theme parks.

Comcast makes offer on Disney

Comcast makes offer on Disney 02/11/2004 12:29 PM
Comcast has made a $66 billion offer for Disney.

Comcast also released a letter sent to Eisner indicating that Eisner had personally rejected Roberts' offer to enter into discussions about a merger earlier in the week.

The letter from Roberts called it "unfortunate" that Eisner was not willing to enter into discussions. "Given this, the only way for us to proceed is to make a public proposal directly to you and your board," the letter stated.

Under the merger, Comcast said it would issue 0.78 of a share of its stock for each Disney share, and Disney shareholders would retain 42 percent of the combined company.

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Comcast Makes Mega-Bid for Disney
(washingtonpost.com)

Comcast Makes Mega-Bid for Disney
(washingtonpost.com) 02/12/2004 07:49 AM
washingtonpost.com - Comcast Corp. launched an unsolicited bid yesterday to take over the Walt Disney Co., offering $56 billion in stock to gain control of the legendary entertainment conglomerate that owns the ABC television network, ESPN sports channel and such global icons as Mickey Mouse.

Comcast Makes Surprise Bid for Disney
(Reuters)

Comcast Makes Surprise Bid for Disney
(Reuters) 02/11/2004 08:29 PM
Reuters - Cable operator Comcast Corp. (CMCSA.O) on Wednesday launched a surprise bid to buy Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N) for about $50 billion in stock, a deal that would create the world's largest media company and further threatens embattled Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner.

CyberGuard makes unsolicited
$297-million bid for rival

CyberGuard makes unsolicited
$297-million bid for rival 07/12/2004 04:11 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jul 12 2004 8:10PM GMT

Comcast offers to buy Disney

Comcast offers to buy Disney 02/11/2004 12:12 PM
Comcast has made a US$66 billion stock-swap offer for Disney. The DRM implications for such a transaction are staggering.

Other News: Comcast Wants Disney

Other News: Comcast Wants Disney 02/11/2004 05:53 PM
Comcast wants to take over Disney, offering $54 billion to do it.

Comcast offers to buy Disney for $66B

Comcast offers to buy Disney for $66B 02/11/2004 05:53 PM
Comcast approached Disney earlier this week with an offer to buy the company but was rebuffed. It made the offer public today.

Comcast pulls out of Disney bid

Comcast pulls out of Disney bid 04/28/2004 07:29 AM
The US cable TV firm scraps plans to buy Walt Disney after the entertainment giant shows "no interest" in its bid approach.

Comcast drops Disney bid

Comcast drops Disney bid 04/28/2004 07:34 AM
The cable giant withdraws its multibillion-dollar offer to acquire Disney, citing opposition from the entertainment company.

Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66
Billion

Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66
Billion 02/11/2004 09:27 AM

Comcast bids for Disney

Comcast bids for Disney 02/12/2004 02:43 AM
Boston Globe Feb 12 2004 6:04AM GMT

Disney spurns Comcast bid

Disney spurns Comcast bid 02/17/2004 04:11 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 17 2004 8:38AM GMT

Comcast walks away from Disney bid

Comcast walks away from Disney bid 04/28/2004 01:17 PM

Disney Stock Halted on Comcast Bid

Disney Stock Halted on Comcast Bid 02/11/2004 10:51 AM
TheStreet.com Feb 11 2004 3:30PM GMT

Disney Rejects Comcast Offer

Disney Rejects Comcast Offer 02/16/2004 11:55 PM
The board the Walt Disney unanimously rejected the $54 billion unsolicited stock offer from the Comcast Corporation because it was too low.

Comcast Puts Disney in Play

Comcast Puts Disney in Play 02/11/2004 07:54 AM
TheStreet.com Feb 11 2004 12:44PM GMT

Comcast CEO outlines Disney plans

Comcast CEO outlines Disney plans 02/11/2004 08:17 PM
NEW YORK - At a hotel directly facing one of Disney's sprawling merchandise stores, Comcast Corp. President and CEO Brian Roberts laid out his strategy and rationale Wednesday for Comcast's $66 billion unsolicited bid for control of The Walt Disney Co.

Disney Board Rejects Bid From Comcast as
Too Low

Disney Board Rejects Bid From Comcast as
Too Low 02/17/2004 01:15 AM
The board of the Walt Disney Company said that it had unanimously rejected the $54 billion stock offer from Comcast.

Comcast Proposes Buying Disney

Comcast Proposes Buying Disney 02/11/2004 09:27 AM
Comcast Corporation, the largest U.S. cable television operator, Wednesday said it has proposed buying the Walt Disney Company.

Comcast Proposes to Buy Walt Disney (AP)

Comcast Proposes to Buy Walt Disney (AP) 02/11/2004 09:40 AM
AP - In a surprise move, cable TV giant Comcast Corp. proposed early Wednesday to buy Walt Disney Co., the iconic media and entertainment powerhouse that owns the ABC and ESPN television networks, movie studios and theme parks, for stock valued at about $54 billion.

Comcast May Officially Withdraw Disney
Bid

Comcast May Officially Withdraw Disney
Bid 04/26/2004 07:06 PM
Back in February, when Comcast first announced their hostile bid to buy Disney it was big news. Then everyone looked at and realized that the deal made no sense, and everyone stopped talking about it. Realizing that it's clearly not going anywhere, and it's pretty much meaningless altogether, Comcast is considering withdrawing the bid altogether, which may be seen as an apologetic form of saying "um, okay, we admit, it wasn't the smartest idea in the first place..."

Comcast Drops Disney Offer

Comcast Drops Disney Offer 04/28/2004 07:35 AM
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Comcast-Disney: Consumers lose out

Comcast-Disney: Consumers lose out 02/12/2004 11:18 AM
ZDNet Feb 12 2004 3:24PM GMT

Comcast CEO writes to Disney CEO. - Feb.
11, 2004

Comcast CEO writes to Disney CEO. - Feb.
11, 2004 02/12/2004 04:23 AM
Comcast's Letter to Disney

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Comcast Abandons Takeover Bid for Disney
(AP)

Comcast Abandons Takeover Bid for Disney
(AP) 04/28/2004 08:18 PM
AP - Cable giant Comcast Corp. dropped its two-month-old unsolicited bid for The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday after being rebuffed by Disney and encountering resistance from its own shareholders.

Comcast tunes into Disney for broadband

Comcast tunes into Disney for broadband 07/21/2004 10:53 AM
High-speed Net subscribers will get access to children’s entertainment from Disney and streaming media from ABC News.

Comcast abandons takeover bid for Disney

Comcast abandons takeover bid for Disney 04/28/2004 08:10 PM

Other News: Comcast + Disney + Pixar?

Other News: Comcast + Disney + Pixar? 02/12/2004 11:28 AM
A Comcast takeover of Disney could re-open Pixar possibilities.

Comcast Drops Designs on Disney

Comcast Drops Designs on Disney 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
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Comcast offers $66 billion for Disney

Comcast offers $66 billion for Disney 02/11/2004 09:34 AM
ZDNet Feb 11 2004 1:23PM GMT

Comcast Drops Takeover Bid for Disney
(AP)

Comcast Drops Takeover Bid for Disney
(AP) 04/28/2004 07:17 AM
AP - The cable giant Comcast Corp. is dropping its takeover bid for The Walt Disney Co., saying Disney management has made it clear it has no interest in putting the two companies together.

Comcast Withdraws Its Bid for Disney
(Reuters)

Comcast Withdraws Its Bid for Disney
(Reuters) 04/28/2004 08:39 AM
Reuters - Comcast Corp. (CMCSA.O), the largest U.S. cable company, on Wednesday withdrew its unsolicited $48.4 billion bid to buy Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N) after the entertainment conglomerate steadfastly refused to open negotiations.

Disney board rejects Comcast offer

Disney board rejects Comcast offer 02/17/2004 02:32 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 17 2004 6:51AM GMT

Disney, Comcast enter Internet deal

Disney, Comcast enter Internet deal 07/21/2004 06:15 AM
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Comcast delivers surprise Valentine to
Disney

Comcast delivers surprise Valentine to
Disney 02/11/2004 08:34 PM
Another recently debuted site is Orkut.com, designed by a Google engineer, though the site's connection to the search company is unclear. ...

Disney Board Rejects Offer From Comcast

Disney Board Rejects Offer From Comcast 02/17/2004 11:42 AM
The Walt Disney Company rejected Comcast Corp.'s takeover bid, but it also kept the cable giant's hopes alive by indicating more money might do the trick.

Comcast CEO wooing Jobs in Disney
takeover bid?

Comcast CEO wooing Jobs in Disney
takeover bid? 02/13/2004 12:03 PM
Steve Jobs, CEO of both Apple and Pixar, may be siding with Comcast CEO Brian Roberts in his company's hostile takeover bid of Disney, according to the New York Post...

Comcast withdraws Disney merger proposal

Comcast withdraws Disney merger proposal 04/28/2004 10:03 AM
Comcast Corp. officially scrapped its fizzled bid to take over The Walt Disney Co., saying Wednesday that Disney's board showed no interest in the deal.
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JspISAPI

JspISAPI 05/23/2004 09:17 AM

To run Tomcat as is on Windows Server 2003, you had to run IIS 6.0 in IIS 5.0 Compability Mode which disables all the goodies IIS 6.0 brings to the table.  Running Tomcat on another port has many downsides and replacing IIS 6.0 with Apache is not a choice either if you need to do ASP.NET tinkering as well as JSP and java servlet stuff like I do.

Behind the scene, neither Apache Foundation nor Microsoft seem to be interested in fixing the problem even though there are more Tomcats running on Windows platforms than any other platforms.  That sucks for developers like me.  So I started writing an ISAPI Extension a few months back that runs Tomcat in IIS 6.0 application pools.  As it goes, a crash project dropped on my lap and I had to drop it after spending only a weekend on it.

Now it looks like there is a solution called JspISAPI.  I can't touch my server just now, but I am going to give it a spin next weekend.  It costs $50 bucks but that's far cheaper than my spending additional 20 hours needed to debug and test my ISAPI extension.  Besides, I was planning to give mine away which would have left the authors of JspISAPI without much of a market.  As a commercial developer, I want to support other commercial developers by buying their product instead of driving them into the ground to satisfy my hippie ideals.

Chinese Rewriter 2.0.1

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A powerful Chinese text conversion tool for Mac OS X.

Unicode Rewriter 0.1

Unicode Rewriter 0.1 08/12/2004 03:58 AM
A tool for converting ID3 tags to Unicode.

Tracing ISAPI Extension in IIS 6.0

Tracing ISAPI Extension in IIS 6.0 01/16/2004 01:02 PM

Woo.  I just found this gem of an IIS 6.0 feature while hopping around for info prior to writing an ISAPI Extension for IIS 6.0.  It's called IIS 6.0 Enterprise Tracing for Windows:

Windows Server 2003 includes Enterprise Tracing for Windows (ETW), a new framework for implementing tracing providers that can be used for debugging and capacity planning. IIS 6.0 implements a number of providers to trace key transitions and the progress that an HTTP request makes as it moves through the IIS service framework. These providers include the following:

• HTTP Service Trace. This provider traces new connections, new HTTP requests from a given connection, HTTP kernel cache hits, application pool routing, and HTTP request completion.
• IIS: WWW Server. This provider traces the transition of a request from HTTP.sys to the worker process, start and stop events surrounding Common Gateway Interface (CGI) requests, and the transition of a request back to HTTP.sys from the worker process. This information reveals the type of request that is being processed.
• IIS: SSL Filter. This provider traces calls into and out of the SSL Filter, which is used for SSL traffic.
• IIS ISAPI Extension. This provider traces the transition of a request into and out of ISAPI extension processing.
• IIS ASP. Traces the start and completion of the execution of an ASP request.

These tracing providers allow you to follow a request through all of its phases. This information is very useful in the problem isolation phase of troubleshooting. For example, ISAPI filters can often cause delays or hangs in HTTP request processing. The tracing functionality can help to determine which ISAPI filter is causing the delay for a given request.

Nice!  It's a bit beastly to use and there isn't a GUI tool to display the trace logs prettily so my eyes won't cross, but it's will come in handy when I find myself up the creek wearing a blindfold.

Glitch in C++ libraries allows a DoS
attack against ISAPI

Glitch in C++ libraries allows a DoS
attack against ISAPI 04/10/2004 06:24 AM
CNET Apr 10 2004 10:12AM GMT

Iconic Communication

Iconic Communication 09/27/2002 05:17 AM

VH1: O.J's Car Chase Iconic of the '90s
(AP)

VH1: O.J's Car Chase Iconic of the '90s
(AP) 07/13/2004 03:48 PM
AP - O.J. Simpson's slow-speed police chase may be the iconic moment of the 1990s, but "Where's Waldo?" may be the funniest — at least according to the VH1 nostalgia series "I Love the '90s."

Apple: The "i" Stands for iconic

Apple: The "i" Stands for iconic 06/01/2004 01:53 PM

Apple's silhouette iPod ads have been far more pervasive than anyone probably imagined, and now thanks to an anonymous New Yorker (or, more likely, New Yorkers) armed with a Sharpie the posters have become a platform for expressing the various feelings of hate, jealousy, passion, and, yes, poetry, that the tropical-hued advertisements and their white audio sperm inspire. Starting with the same argument levied against the iPod's great uncle, the Walkman, the phrase, "The "i" in iPod stands for isolation," was scribbled on the first ad, replicated down the line with "irrational," "insecure," and other iWords taking the place of "isolation." Deep! Ironically, the people that felt the need to parley an mp3 player into social critique are exactly the people we wear headphones to avoid. (Thanks, Matt!)
Read [VillageVoice]

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Strip, Pix, Burn: iRaq [Gizmodo]

Munch's Iconic 'Scream' Stolen in Norway
(AP)

Munch's Iconic 'Scream' Stolen in Norway
(AP) 08/22/2004 09:00 PM
AP - Armed, masked thieves burst into a lightly guarded Oslo museum Sunday and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece "The Scream" and a second Munch painting from the walls as stunned visitors watched in shock.

Iconic Munch Painting Stolen from Museum
in Norway

Iconic Munch Painting Stolen from Museum
in Norway 08/22/2004 10:04 AM
Edvard Munch's paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna" were stolen from an art museum Sunday while armed men threatened the staff at gunpoint.

Comcast Makes Unsolicited Bid for Disney (AP)

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