The Free Software Entrepreneur’s Guide: Part 2
NetMaster gets a mention 🙂
Month: June 2000
“The term Samizdat translated from the Russian sam or ‘self’ and izadatelstvo or ‘publishing,’ is a play on the official soviet Gosizdat, or ‘State Publishing House.’ Literature which would be considered samizdat are manuscripts which were privately and illegally produced and circulated in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Before glasnost in the 1980s, this was the only way in which to publish anything not endorsed and censored by the government.”
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The Coming Storm: considers a
The Coming Storm: considers a world in which information is locked inside “trusted client” devices
“In the jargon of trusted-client, ‘trusted’ doesn’t mean the owner can trust his hardware, it means the manufacturer trusts that it has the exclusive authority to program the device. Also, ‘security’ doesn’t mean security for the user, it means security from the user.”
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How To Eliminate The Ten
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Bridging the gap between sysadmins
Bridging the gap between sysadmins and designers
[via CamWorld]
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Let Go Of That Content!
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The Dewbie, a Debian newbie
The Dewbie, a Debian newbie trying to roll his own
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Unix Wars in Star Wars
Unix Wars in Star Wars style
“A long time ago, at an installation far, far away…
It is a time of intra-system war, as forces of the User Alliance struggle to break the iron grip of the evil Admin Empire. Now, striking from a hidden directory, they win their first victory.
During the battle, User spies manage to snarf source of the Empire’s ultimate weapon; the dreaded `rm-star’, a privileged root program with the power to destroy an entire file system at a keystroke.
Now, hotly pursued by the Empire’s sinister audit trail, Princess LA36 races aboard her shellscript — custodian of the stolen listings that can save her people and restore freedom and games to the network…”
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Working on Free Software “This
“This page is an informal collection of ‘unwritten rules and understandings’ for people who’d like to volunteer.”