Security Revealed
It’s long been clear to me that the biggest lock-in Microsoft has, at the enterprise level, is not with Windows or personal apps, but with Exchange Server. And the biggest problem there is this: it’s good. Enterprises like it. And, since Exchange works only or best with Windows machines, the lock-in extends to much else. Linux and Mac boxes get purged and replaced by Windows ones.
Or so goes the story I hear from folks at big enterprises.
So I’m wondering about alternatives.
The Internet is infrastructure. This should be plain, but it’s not. The reason is that neither the Net nor infrastructure are well-understood, even though both could hardly be more widely used.
I was celebrating Leap Day (February 29) at a London pub with Mark Antony Kent, Head of Technology Strategy at British Telecom, hoping also to pump his brain for insights to follow up on a contentious FCC hearing at Harvard earlier that week—one convened to visit issues around Comcast’s valving of BitTorrent traffic.
Public wi-fi in airports and hotels is offered on the pay toilet model. It charges money to use low-cost plumbing facilities. I believe it would be better for airports, and their passengers, if plumbing usage were free, just as it is for water and trains between terminals.
Can we tell them how?
Om Malik <a href=”https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/56/leadership.html”>calls this “dave winer’s best post of the year”. I can’t recall a better one, but ranking isn’t what matters here. What matters is perspective and experience, and Dave has plenty of both. What he says is,
I’ve always had a thing for remote control (RC) aircraft. The kid and I have several half-broken ones to prove it. So now I’m thinking about taking it to the next level. Literally. With a DIY Drone — a kind of aerial robot.
Typeanalyzer says Linux Journal is one of The Guardians. That is,
The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done.
JFK said "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan." So I’m here to claim Linux-based geek paternity for the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The geeks didn’t do it alone, of course. But their role was huge.
The Dell IdeaStorm site was an inspired move by the company, providing a way for the market to tell a major supplier what to do, rather than the reverse, which has been the default for the whole Industrial Age.
It’s time to start fixing telecom, even as we’re moving past it. That challenge is the squall I’ll bring to the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm in London tomorrow and Wednesday. This is my first time at one (it’s the fifth in their series), and I’m looking forward to it.
It’s time to start fixing telecom, even as we’re moving past it. If ideas are weather systems, that’s the squall I’ll bring to the Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm in London tomorrow and Wednesday. This is my first time at one (it’s the fifth in their series), and I’m looking forward to it.
Google phrase searches can produce results that seem like random answers to a Rorschach test—only more amusing. Here are the top results (on a day in July 2008) for “The Internet is like…”:
“a vast uncataloged library”
“a vagina”
“Joey Bishop”
“a series of tubes”
Paul Boutin is a friend. I love the guy. I also think his latest Wired piece — Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 — is a crock.* Two reasons. One is that blogs are fine, even if they seem passé. The other is that blogs are free and open, while Twitter, Flickr and Facebook to varying degrees are not.
Operating systems drive devices. Linux is driven by open-source imperatives. So, naturally, Linux’s kernel developers have a problem with closed-source kernel modules. And, just as naturally, they’ve hacked up a statement they hope will discourage the closed and encourage the open.
I respect Richard Stallman for the same reason I respect gravity. The man is a force of nature. He is like the iron core of the Earth: fixed, central, essential. So, when I read a story like "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman", which ran in the Guardian last week, I take notice. And I’m not alone. A search on Google for stallman "cloud computing" brings up 142,000 results.
I respect Richard Stallman for the same reason I respect gravity. The man is a force of nature. He is like the iron core of the Earth: fixed, central, essential. So, when I read a story like "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman", which ran in the Guardian last week, I take notice. And I’m not alone. A search on Google for stallman "cloud computing" brings up 142,000 results.
Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 — seventeen years ago today.
Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 — seventeen years ago today.
Says here that Internet radio is about to get a reprieve. We’ve been covering the fight between the RIAA and webcasters for many years, going back to the DMCA, which left working out webcasting royalties pretty much unfinished.
Until Chrome came along, Google’s Master Mobile Plan didn’t quite add up. Now it does. Chrome — Google’s new superbrowser — is cream on the top of a new mobile software stack. Let’s call it GACL, for Gears, Android and Chrome on Linux.
Michael Anti is an engineer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Huaxia Times, 21st Century World Herald, Washington Post, Southern Metropolis Daily and Far and Wide Journal. He has been a researcher, a columnist, a reporter, a war correspondent in Baghdad (in 2003) and more—and achieved notoriety in 2005 when Microsoft deleted his blog.
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