This article cites a really weird attack on the authorship of Linux... I remember that Linux was based on the Minux stuff early on, but Minix was designed as a learning OS in the Tennenbaum books... They make this absurd argument that Linux couldn't have been written by Torvalds because it would be impossible to write that fast - even though it was. In 1991 I had a class on operating systems at UCLA and they expected all the CS students to rewrite parts of the Minix code... it will be incredible if this sort of nonsense wins in court.

"Finally, it's hard to minimize the importance of the DVD Forum's provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 technology, essentially Windows Media Video 9, along with two other technologies, H.264 and MPEG-2, as mandatory on next-generation playback devices."

Looks like the other P2P companies are entering the Skype VoIP space. Pretty soon everyone will have a voice chat IM product. Heck, I might be even working on one.

My in-car computer company, Carbot, Inc. is shipping it's first product.

Nice brief primer on telematics and in car computers - has a couple nice illustrations including a telematics block diagram and a supply chain block diagram.

In my continuing quest for the ideal p2p NAT/firewall traversal stack, I ran across this useful presentation a while ago from Dan Kaminski of http://www.doxpara.com/.

This is a nice synopsis of major P2P applications and their networking, in the form of a "how to block these apps". Gives some insight on P2P and firewalls.

Here is the powerpoint presentation I gave on carbot and in-car computing @ O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. I'll put the video of the presentation up soon.

I've been trying to figure out what I want to do my PhD in. As an engineer and inventor, I kept looking around for projects that would be interesting AND useful, to do the research on - I'd like to produce a thing people can use at the end of my Doctorate, not just some inscrutable collection of data added to the obscure corpus of scientific knowledge. I've been thinking about Artificial Intelligence.

If you think about it, probably the reason wireless networking and mobile phones are so successful and desirable to humans is that they remove the barriers of space, time, and matter from communication.