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An opinion piece on how requiring separation between user and superuser system rights its too tough on software makers. in other words: Security v. Convenience, Take 1000…
Author Archives: Jason Brooks
links for 2007-01-09
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“Releasing the source now is our next invitation to the world to help build this global space for communication, business, and entertainment. We are eager to work with the community and businesses to further our vision of our space.”
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Apt-Cacher will allow you to centrally cache any updates or installed packages on a central machine and help you save bandwidth.
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Microsoft will open up the product to an outside private beta test in late February and then ship it in late 2007.
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“An open cargo bay and 25-pin expansion port allow you to add your own sensors, grippers, wireless connections, computers or other hardware.” sweet
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Want a robot that picks up your clothes? The maker of Roomba is out with a device that can be programmed to suit consumers’ specific needs.Photos: Creating a customized iRobot
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“If you’re planning to upgrade to Vista, you may need certain factors to evaluate such as hardware needs, licensing option, application compatibility, user & staff trainings and above all usability.”
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Jim Allchin, Vista, Data, and You.
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A new feature that will first be availble in the upcoming 2.6.20 kernel is KVM, a Kernel-based Virtual Machine.
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Good post — I’d welcomed the commercial repository for Ubuntu, and it’s too bad this repo isn’t getting more use.
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“A new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance argues that a publicly owned information infrastructure is the key to healthy competition, universal access, and non-discriminatory networks.”
links for 2007-01-06
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Makes some fair points about our web site — Interestingly, when I navigated away from Mr. McAllister’s blog page, my browser crashed!
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“Does Windows need anti-virus? That’s the question I would like Microsoft Watch readers to answer.”
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Very pro-AV blog post. This guy says that if your computer is plugged in, you need AV. I don’t know that I buy it…
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“No, the biggest problem with MS is far worse. It’s the users they create.” That’s a bit rough, I’d say.
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I gave Drivel a go, but my user name is multi-word, which makes Drivel flip out.
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Crazily, Microsoft’s Powershell won’t be available for Vista until Jan 31. Here’s a workaround for getting it installed on Vista RTM now…
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The Linux bonding driver provides a method for aggregating multiple network interfaces into a single logical “bonded” interface.
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“Examine the life cycle of a process so that you can relate what you see happening on your system to what’s going on within the kernel.”
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The upcoming release of Virtual Iron 3.1 lacks many of the advanced features of VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure Server 3, but it does showcase that VMware’s competition is not far behind.
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“Autonet Mobile Inc., a San Francisco start-up, said yesterday that it is preparing to release a product for cars that combines 3G cellular access and Wi-Fi technology.”
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“The purpose of this document can be informally stated as follows: if you were to use virtualization in a an endeavor (research or otherwise), here are some things to look at.”
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“If you buy a computer, you often pay for Microsoft Windows even if you didn’t ask for it and aren’t going to use it. This article shows you how to return your unused Windows license and get your money back, freeing yourself from the Windows tax.”
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On the heels of an IBM claim about mainframes offering better ROI than smaller systems, here’s a piece about a grids vs. mainframes…
links for 2007-01-05
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A very detailed look at openSUSE 10.2 from a long-time SUSE user, with a focus on server roles.
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“Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth claims that there are at least 8 million Ubuntu Linux desktops alone out there. I wish I could believe that number, but I don’t.” Let’s ask Mark where he gets that number.
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A patch has been widely released for a vulnerability in the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, a problem rated as “highly critical” by one security vendor.
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“MySQL has changed the license it uses for its open source database management system to avoid being forced to move to the forthcoming GPL v3.” Makes sense–MySQL should make its own licensing decisions.
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“Can moving to an all-Microsoft environment save your business time, money and aggravation? More and more IT departments are saying yes.” I guess they don’t call it Redmond Mag for nothing.
links for 2007-01-04
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The project that set out to extend bugfix availability for the Fedora releases that Red Hat discards is ending, and ending with it is more of Fedora’s credibility as a worthwhile general purpose Linux OS.
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Q: Won’t BitTyrant hurt overall BitTorrent performance if everyone uses it?
This is a subtle question and is treated most thoroughly in the paper. The short answer is: maybe. -
E-wrestling. The game for people who find tic-tac-toe too thought-intensive. You control a wrestler, and you e-mail your move (“Head lock”) to the adjudicator. So does your opponent. The judge decides what happens, writes up a report, and mails it to ever
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[Novell and Microsoft] have found a legal hack on the GPL v2, they have found a bug in the code, and so the GPL v3 is a fixed version of the license.
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A comprehensible changelog of the Linux kernel, this page shows a summary of the important changes being added in each Linux kernel release – support for new devices, features, filesystems, and subsystems as well as important internal changes.
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miru directory server is a project aimed at creating an embedded LTSP software package that….provides all the network infrastructure dependencies required to create a multi-terminal server environment without the expense of MS Active Directory or LDAP
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It’s official! The consumer release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 will be celebrated in New York on January 29 at a launch event the software giant has dubbed “The WOW starts now.”
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By Fedora 7, we want to move all Core packages into the community infrastructure currently used for Fedora Extras. The primary benefits are to lower barrier for community involvement, allow comaintainership of packages.
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Dunc-Tank, the unofficial organization set up to fund selected Debian activities, has made its first experimental payment to release managers, but community members are still debating whether a missed deadline and the alleged demotivation of some programm
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Nearly half the world’s large businesses will use Linux on desktops or in servers by the end of 2011, Saugatuck Technology predicts.
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It is not clear if Illuminata has compared the TCO of multiple virtualised small iron, like blade servers, versus IBM’s big-iron.
links for 2007-01-03
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A very interesting piece — the formatted memory cards you sell or otherwise discard can contain recoverable media, and the authors of this story went and recovered some of it…
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For extra credit.
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Reminds me of something I heard at a Sun event, “Why go to work at a Linux firm to work on problems that Sun solved in the 80’s when you can come to Sun and work on problems that IBM solved in the 60’s?” Anyhow, this is an excellent virtualization primer.
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“An open source wireless tracking system for following people around buildings got its first public use last week at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.” Seems a bit creepy to me, but I suppose it could be handy in a trade show-type scenario.
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An article by Bill Gates about robots — this link is to page four, where it gets a bit interesting. Microsoft has built a programming toolkit for writing the sort of software that drives robots. Sounds good, but what’re the licensing terms?
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“…our goal is to create a vibrant third party software ecosystem around Linux–you know, like the one Microsoft has built around Windows.” Sounds good. I’ve signed up for the linux packaging standardization mailing list…
MS Office Student and Teacher and Pirate Edition
Over at Microsoft Watch, our own Joe Wilcox has penned an interesting post about how popular Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition has become in comparison to Microsoft’s more costly business editions of Office.
In particular, his last paragraph caught my eye:
OneNote could greatly diminish the value for business users looking for activational copies of Office on the cheap. Businesses would more likely want Outlook. I’d argue the Outlook-for-OneNote swap is as much about discouraging piracy as offering something possibly more suited to consumers.
Joe said it, not Microsoft, but I do wonder whether Microsoft actually considers the purchase of STE by non-qualified persons to be an act of piracy.
Also, I don’t know if activational is a word, but I’ll allow it. After all, ours is a living language…
links for 2007-01-01
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“By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognised as larger and more active than the Linux community…” If this is to happen, it’ll take a lot longer than one year.
links for 2006-12-29
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This piece starts out rather promising, going into the first days of Linux distributions, but the history ends rather abruptly.
links for 2006-12-27
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Forget about winning on the desktop, the author says. Open source developers should look toward new, less machine-bound, horizons.
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