Best of the blogs: Most of the attention open source grabs is on the positive side, be that of the business/financial or philosophical sort. But, in reality, just as with proprietary software there are downsides and detractors. One such developer speaks up, or rather writes in, to comment about how difficult the Amanda backup application is to install and use, as well as the real costs of MySQL. Agree? Disagree? Talkback via the comments function below, or at the link I provided above. Search: Google today debuts a search engine tailored for finding source code. Google Code Search, available here, one-ups Google’s main search engine by crawling more deeply and returning results with snippets of code, the company says. Gripe Line: Ed Foster reports that “a DSL line that works is worth any money-saving deals the phone company might offer.” It seems that BellSouth in particular is pushing a package that it cannot even deliver, at least that’s the case of one reader who wound up with a web so tangled that BellSouth couldn’t even return it to the same condition it was in before the fiasco began. BellSouth DSL savings may be just a line. The news beat: The ironically-named Integrity Security & Investigation Services company will surrender the $2,7000 it garnered in exchange for phone records and credit card transaction reports and is barred from obtaining confidential records; the deal it struck with the FTC was part of a filing against five Web-based opertions believed to practice pretexting. Wyse issues new thin clients with embedded Wi-Fi to make them easier to deploy. And Ecma says , thereby giving ISVs opportunity to prepare their applications before the launch of Office 2007. Technology Industry