Date: 05/31/05     Keywords: java

Rodi is a small-client p2p application, written in Java, that improves on BitTorrent by allowing both content searches and full anonymity. It's released under the General Public License (GNU).  The client can be accessed here. Even your IP address can be hidden using Rodi through a process called "bouncing." That is if A wants a [...]

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Date: 05/31/05     Keywords: software

since they don't have the software figured out they assume Wintel is the answer, get the people, hardware, and operating system licences to go with that, and then discover they're on a rockslide that can only go one way - downhill.

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Date: 05/31/05     Keywords: software

Slashdot has singled out a Live Journal entry by Red Hat's Ulrich Drepper titled "Dictatorship of the Minorities" that raises an interesting topic. Drepper argues that it doesn't further the cause of free software to continue developing on closed platforms, and that there's little benefit in supporting "minority" architectures like m68k, PA RISC and [...]

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Date: 05/30/05     Keywords: security

Some people still think this is intended just as a games engine, but it's not. As the presentation noted above puts it: "Intended to be the next generation standard architecture." And it will be too, it has the security features of RISC, the hardware partitioning IBM loyalists demand, and awesome performance potential.

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Date: 05/27/05     Keywords: linux

With Nokia now committed to Linux, other mobile players are nearly certain to follow

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Date: 05/27/05     Keywords: linux

These people are awfully sane - but I think that paragraph tells you everything you need to know about Linux: an army crossing its Rubicon shouting "We can, We do, and It works!"

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Date: 05/27/05     Keywords: linux

India's free CD program reminds me of the early days of Linux. If it weren't for cheap Linux CDs a lot of users may never have gotten their hands on Linux. License terms that allowed redistribution were only half of the deal. It doesn't mean a lot to allow free distribution [...]

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Date: 05/26/05     Keywords: linux

When I read that India was preparing to distribute Linux on CD, as reported by Ingrid Marson, I knew there was an important word that needed to get into this discussion.The word is localization.Bangalore, the heart of India's "Silicon Valley," is a case in point. It's in Karnataka state. The official language is Kannada (no relation [...]

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Date: 05/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

I don't want to imply that there isn't an argument to be made for getting server utilization up; there is, but its not always appropriate and, where it is, neither virtualization nor partitioning are likely to be the right way to do it.

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Date: 05/25/05     Keywords: software

The idea of selling service unites the closed source and open source worlds. Increasingly software needs the regular updates that makes selling it as a service look attractive.

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Date: 05/25/05     Keywords: security, microsoft

If Microsoft pulls it off, they'll have set a new standard in the black art of succeeding through failure because, of course, those people wouldn't be needed if Microsoft built reasonable security into their systems

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Date: 05/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

A few weeks ago the folks at OSDL took some decisions.They're a small outfit, with just 57 employees, in the Portland suburb of Beaverton. They let some folks go. But they also announced plans to expand further into Asia, and open an office in Europe. (We're going global! Am I the only one who remembers that [...]

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Date: 05/24/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Today, rather than reporting on licenses or distributions or Microsoft, I wanted to encourage a little bragging among fans of the Linux open source operating system.So. What is your favorite desktop Linux application? Which provides the most value to you? Which do you use most often? Which would be hardest for you to do without?I [...]

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Date: 05/24/05     Keywords: microsoft

The worst thing in Microsoft's version of iVMS, aka Windows 2000, was the morphing of the uaf facility into the registry. Longhorn apparently contains something both similar and worse called the Nexus.

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Date: 05/23/05     Keywords: security, linux, microsoft

Everyone knows that Microsoft has a new anti-Linux strategy. Everyone knows it's based on promises of security. What everyone doesn't know is how well it's working. And it's working better than open source advocates want to admit. Munir Kotadia of ZDNet Australia recently used interviews to diss Microsoft's latest effort in this area, a Wipro-produced survey [...]

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Date: 05/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

So why would Apple be talking to Intel? Assuming the conversation has been about primary system CPUs I can think of three possible reasons:

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Date: 05/23/05     Keywords: software, microsoft

Two percent may not sound like much of a survival rate, but it compares to the success rate of internally generated software ideas at companies like IBM or Microsoft the way the Pentium IV does to the i80386.

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Date: 05/23/05     Keywords: linux

Checking out Data Point, I found this Yankee Group release on heterogenous networks that states the obvious "Linux is here, Windows is not going away and heterogeneity is the order of the day." I'm glad we've finally established that. I'm eagerly awaiting the next Yankee Group report, "Many system administrators drink coffee." [...]

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Date: 05/20/05     Keywords: security, linux

Here is a question that lies beyond the normal Linux vs. Windows arguments we make here, but whose answer should concern even Linux users.Where should security live?The facile answer is everywhere. Professional network security managers tend to want to scan at the edges of their networks, and centralize patch management. We amateurs tend to leave [...]

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Date: 05/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

I'm a Mac user - we just double click and things work (of course)..

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