Upgrades

Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature , Rafe Colburn offers up The cultural...

Forking is a Feature

While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux, it’s one of his more geeky creations, and the social implications of its design, that may well end...

South Korea's Infertile SEED

Gen has captured the cost of monoculture with his excellent look at the unfortunate result of some technology choices made in South Korea years ago: This nation...

Start Your Week With Links

Right now, the most important thing you could be doing is reading these web pages: Jeff Clavier celebrates his second blogging anniversary and quotes me quoting...

I'm Taking You With Me

Baseline magazine (which has been one of my favorites almost since its first issue) has a brief piece on companies that are forming software co-ops to help...

I still like my picture

I still like my picture better than the one CNN uses in their story on the IBM Linux graffiti .

While wandering around the neighborhood

While wandering around the neighborhood the other day, I noticed that there were spray-painted stencil graphics on every sidewalk corner for many, many blocks....

Victory is mine! Got an

Victory is mine! Got an email today that the VirginConnect service is dead. Now I get to keep the hardware. Although the email they sent says: We will send you...

So there's a Linux-based PDA

So there’s a Linux-based PDA coming out that looks pretty interesting. I’ll be curious to see how the SlashDot crowd reacts, since they’ve been spending so much...

Shhh! Don't tell the geeks!

Shhh! Don’t tell the geeks! If everyone knows it, how come nobody talks about it? The big, dark secret: Slashdot is ugly. Must Linux geeks fit the stereotypes...

Shouldn't the progress bars be

Shouldn’t the progress bars be resizable in modern operating systems? I was at a client and wanted to see how far along a certain task was, but I was across the...