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The Law of Software Envelopment

The Linux Kernel Book: Blueprints for World Domination

“The KernelBook Project is a collaborative effort of open source and commercial developers to create an architectural guide to the Linux 2.4 kernel. The book-in-progress is available online for peer review and will be published by Macmillan Computer Publishing under the Open Publishing License.”

Using Perl to Read Mail

“It’s been said that if you work on any program long enough, that program will eventually be able to send electronic mail. It doesn’t matter what the original purpose of the program was (if you can still remember)–if you develop it long enough, some day that program will send its first piece of email.”

Ture, true.

Coldjava bunches of Java Servlets ready for download

URLS! URLS! URLS!, how to make your CGI URLs readable.

osOpinion: Are today’s open source-centric web sites just faking it?
Now it would be intresting if slashdot started publishing under the Open Content Liscense.

LinuxFund.org needs projects to fund

“A ceiling of $1,000 per grant will be imposed, but the organization is also donating tape drives, SCSI hard drives, and other equipment to suitable seekers.”

.NET? Are we insane?

“Now, our information won’t reside under our control. It’s empowerment favoring corporations, not consumers/users.

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People! Wake up! Don’t you know what excessive power causes? In the first place, it causes corruption! What is stopping content/access providers from spying on your information? The law? How could you possibly enforce the law in case of a crime, if you weren’t able to know in the first place if the crime was committed? You already know your privacy is being invaded with targeted ads and the like. Is it time to give up more private information to a service provider?”

Don’t forget what happens when service companies go under, like boo.com selling customer information to pay off creditors.

This claims to be the web page of Neal Town Stephenson, the author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and other works.

The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End

“Specifications and bureaucracies live forever.”