The police need to be more active.

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.

Some thoughts from teaching XSLT. Is there a gap for a little language, strictly streaming, for simple in-place text tranformations?

"XML and Web services are crucial for protecting America" Using RSS and E-Ink for general Class 4 IETMs

"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."

Going from Mandrake 9.1 to Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition was actually pleasant, even with a missing disk 3; only marred by an easily fixable Mozilla problem

"It is the marketing term to call things standard these days." All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely playas. Plus ergonomic keyboards.

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.

Less worry for people doing good

A linux-based handheld aimed at the developing world has finally been released. In India at least the Simputer should provide mobile networked computers to the masses.