No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. -- Charles M. Schulz The Ten Most Abused Words in Tech Overused words not only make us wince, but they can confuse and obfuscate as well. We run down the top 10 offenders. NVIDIA calls the kettle black Graphics chip maker NVIDIA has called on the graphics card industry to halt the common practice of optimising graphics drivers for benchmarks only, and only to optimise drivers where benefits are seen in both computer games and benchmarks. How spammers are targeting blogs Technology analyst Bill Thompson has been getting lots of comments on his weblogs, unfortunately most of the want to sell him Viagra. He has been "flyblogged". Microsoft launches Office 2003 MICROSOFT has launched the newest version of its Office software in New York, kicking off a $US150 million ($214 million) ad campaign in hopes of convincing customers to upgrade. Special report: The birth of Samba In this ZDNet Australia special report, the creator of the open source file-sharing software Samba, Andrew Tridgell, explains how he came to write the software that has earned him Bulletin magazine's Smartest 100 award in the ICT sector for 2003. I, Cringely: How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All This week, speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said some fascinating things about Linux and about Open Source software in general. And thanks to those remarks and the blinding realization they caused for me, I finally understand exactly why Microsoft doesn't understand Open Source. EU Tries to Force MS to Compete The European Commission is trying to avoid the same pitfalls that tripped up the United States in its Microsoft case, where business practices judged illegal three years ago still linger. Linux Is the Enterprise Operating System Linux's day as a mainstream enterprise server operating system isn't coming. It's arrived, says eWEEK.com Linux & Open Source Center Editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. SuSE signs up key software partner SuSE Linux has enlisted the backing of server-software maker Veritas Software, an important step in supporting the needs of business computing and keeping up with top Linux seller Red Hat. SCO & UNIX: A Comedy of Errors With the recent announcement by Novell that SCO does not own the copyrights and patents to UNIX, SCO's aggressive legal campaign is losing air fast. It is beginning to look like classic farce. SCO v. IBM Part Deux Much Sound and Fury, Little Enlightenment Should UnitedLinux Boot SCO? UnitedLinux, formed with high hopes and a spirit of cooperation, now appears to be anything but united. The umbrella group of four Linux vendors is a house divided, an organization whose members seem to be at cross purposes with each other. Long March 4B Satellite Launch Seen here, the Long March 4B rocket lifts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province at 11:16 p.m. EDT (0316 GMT). Its main cargo arrived in orbit 13 minutes later and a second, smaller Chinese spacecraft was ejected 40 seconds after that. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Seahorse Industries