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RepRap and The End of Want
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, one of the most pervasive inventions was the "replicator&quo... 		9-Mar-2008
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Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten. End Software Patents Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco ... 		6-Mar-2008
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2008: A Year of Tipping Points?
I meant to write this for New Year's but got distracted. Perhaps it's a case of "better late than never". I predicted that 2008 will be a year of several "tipping points". First the Good News: I had planned to say that 2008 would ... 		15-Feb-2008
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Thecus Back To Life
The Thecus N2100 whose untimely demise I blogged recently is now, I'm happy to report, back to life, thanks to some help from the folks at Thecus in Taiwan. I'm putting some finishing touches on the OpenBSD install notes that should be ready in a few d... 		26-Nov-2007
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Mac OS X Users want Java 6
This would seem surreal to a mainframe programmer of 20 years ago. Bloggers are putting the string 13949712720901ForOSX into their Blogs so that a Google Blog Search/Count can be used to show that a lot of people want Apple to release Java 6 for Mac OS... 		7-Nov-2007
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... 		31-Oct-2007
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iBrick
What can one add to this? I like a lot of Apple's technology, but their decision to make a customers' iPhone into an iBrick at the drop of a hat is leaving a lot of people puzzled. And it sends an ominous picture of the future of cell-phone tech; I'm g... 		12-Oct-2007
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Microsoft anti-piracy backfires
This Ars Tecnica article talks about the story, which is fairly well-known by now; Microsoft security people loaded incompetent code into their anti-piracy server (gratuitously named "(MS)Windows Genuine Advantage", when it clearly gives the ... 		3-Sep-2007
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Beautiful Code
O'Reilly has opened a site called Beautiful Code with discussions and articles about the eponymous topic, partly by the authors of the eponymous book. Sample openers include "One of the reasons there's less beautiful code in the world than most of... 		9-Aug-2007
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What's wrong with the Web, part 42
In a story on BoingBoing, a "web developer" who got a major bit of Sticker Shock on his eye(candy)Phone from AT&T wrote: "On the way to the airport, I activated the per-use international roaming data plan - the only one offered to m... 		31-Jul-2007
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On Strike for a better world?
When I mentioned on a mailing list that I don't use Skype because it's closed source both at the protocol level and at the code level, and further they don't even provide binaries for OpenBSD, a colleague on that list wrote back: This is pretty strang... 		13-Jun-2007
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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: An Eternal Brown Triangle
In the bad old days of computing - the mainframe era - it was common for IBM to try to prevent customers from using cost-effective third-party solutions in conjunction with expensive IBM mainframes by spreading "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" ... 		21-May-2007
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JavaOne Summary
This has been a very busy week at JavaOne, with lots of new announcments but few major ones. One of the largest announcements was a small but powerful technology called JavaFX, which is potentially very significant because it provides a compositional A... 		11-May-2007
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Microsoft: Giant to Relic in under a decade?
My pal Lak recently resumed blogging and pointed to this piece on the 1999 verdict in U.S.A. v Microsoft. Back then Microsoft was the behemoth that crushed Netscape and nearly crushed Java, in the process diverting Java from the Applet to the Enterpris... 		18-Apr-2007
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The Failure of Software Packaging
There are too many packaging formats. And, projects that don't put up immutable numbered source archives in a standard format are the bane of the porting person's existence. 		19-Mar-2007
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Open Source is Free; Microsoft Free to Continue the Big Lie
CBR Online quotes senior Microsofthead Steve Ballmer speaking to analysts about their deal with Novell: "I would not anticipate that we make a huge additional revenue stream from our Novell deal, but I do think it clearly establishes that open sou... 		9-Mar-2007
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Sun WebCast regarding Open Source Java
Further to my post below about OSS Java, Sun is having an online webcast today, November 13, at 0930 PST (1230 EST); please watch it if you can and if you are interested, at http://sun.com/javan... 		13-Nov-2006
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M$ Vista: Mortgage Your Company To Run It
Microsoft Vista will be so expensive to buy and to run that you'll have to mortgage your company to use it. That's the implication of Microsoft's decision to enter the loan business in at least one Western country 		27-Jun-2006
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Starving the Golden Goose
As you probably know I am involved with the OpenBSD project, which also creates OpenSSH, the world-leading secure network protocol. What's interesting about OpenSSH is that most operating system vendors bundle it with their systems, including Apple, H... 		25-Mar-2006
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Thinking globally, acting locally - on African Debt
A school I do some work for is sponsoring a school in Africa, and they asked me to help them get a MS-Windows PC, but I didn't. I gently but firmly steered them to an open source *NIX, explaining both the technical and social advantages of open source... 		15-Mar-2006

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