Month: March 2005
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bits and pieces
From this article [ archive.org ] by Peter Hickman at MacDevCenter “The big difference between the world of Unix and that other place is that in the other place they have applications and we have tools.” These are a cool way to burn money: the Cubes & Geekman and his friends from Happy Worker. With…
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pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
As I read through the NY Times this Sunday and it’s full of things about identity and democracy: the want for linking state drivers licenses together into some kind of national database; the fiasco that is consumer information and its relationship to identity theft; the rise of popular representative government in the Middle East; the…
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Divide And Conquer Yourself
Marcus Ranum has this little rant on his web site and it got picked up by Slashdot, so I read it. Divide And Conquer Yourself His basic premise is that the n-flavors of Linux, BSD, and System V kernel based operating systems make it easy for Microsoft to play the various vendors against themselves and…
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command and control
there is something about command and control that has always bothered me. It’s the pairing… Obviously control is contained in the meaning of command, so in this case, command must be something different in kind from control. I’ve taken to thinking of control as a pejorative. (taken to is probably utterly wrong and completely out…