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Ian Murdock: Making Solaris more like Linux: Eight days into his tenure at Sun, newly minted Chief Operating Platforms Officer Ian Murdock took the stage at the SDForum event, "Platform 2.0: The Next Generation" in Santa Clara. The founder of Linux distro Debian in 1993, Murdock made the jump to Sun and appears to be charged with...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Ian Murdock, Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., operating system; Blog posts 2007-03-27
Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft: Ian Murdock, the chief technology officer of the recently formed Linux Foundation created from the merger of ODL and the Free Standards Group is set to address a group of Microsoft employees on February 20. The subject of Murdocks "Invited Speaker Series" talk: The Debian Linux distribution. ...; Tags: Corporate strategy, Linux, Novell; Blog posts 2007-02-20
Ian Murdock, cat herder: On Monday, the Free Standards Group will launch a new version of the Linux Standard Base. AP broke an embargo on this story Saturday, but I've been sitting on an interview with FSG CTO Ian Murdock since Thursday and there's one word from that interview that stands out.Endurance. In other...; Tags: LSB, Ian Murdock; Blog posts 2006-04-22
Ian Murdock on the Debian Core Consortium and Ubuntu Foundation: Yesterday, I promised a follow-up on the Ubuntu Foundation and comments from Debian Founder and Progeny Chairman and Chief Strategist Ian Murdock. One of the things that was up in the air yesterday was the possible creation of an "enterprise" Debian distribution. An eWeek story...; Tags: Debian, Ian Murdock; Blog posts 2005-07-12

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How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25

Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?: Anyone bothering to teach 35mm photography classes anymore?Overall Cost and ValueIn my experience, digital photography was not vastly less money outlay than 35mm. I paid enough up front to amount to what I would have paid for 35mm including processing in the next 10 years. However, once I had made...; Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, PRODUCTIVITY, Photgraphy, photography; Discussion threads 2008-07-08
(Photos: Ian Fleming and how he forged a Bond): (Photos: Ian Fleming and how he forged a Bond)Ultimate MashupIf only Fleming and Spillane had collaborated on a novel. They might have given us Jack Bauer a few decades early.; Tags: Investment, Ian Fleming, bond, photograph; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Photos: Ian Fleming and how he forged a Bond: New exhibit, marking the 100th anniversary of Fleming's birth, examines the writer, his work, and the spy who loves his martinis shaken, not stirred. by CNET News.com; Tags: Exhibit, Bond, Photograph, Investment, Finance, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-06-15
Collaboration 2.0...: Collaboration 2.0...WelcomeIt's always nice to see other thinking along the same lines as myself. Colloboration 2.0 ( http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/it-collaboration-technology-blog/ ) has also been up and running on Computer Weekly here in your old country for about 6 months now, this could occsasionly raise the possiblity for some interesting cross-posts! We are...; Tags: Groupware, Collaboration 2.0, collaboration; Discussion threads 2008-06-12
BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...; Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-06-06
Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast buys PlaxoI canceled my account.RE: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast is entirely out of touch with what it's customers want. For instance, a 1 year discount on an overpriced service doesn't attract anyone who's been paying cable...; Tags: TV & Home Theater, user number, TV, Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., social networking, network; Discussion threads 2008-05-15
What's wrong at OpenSolaris: The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-15
To Catch a Thief: To catch a thief ... the high-tech way. Somone broke into Kait Dupalga's apartment and stole TVs, iPods, a set of car rims – and Kate's Mac laptop. The big break in the case came when a friend of Kate's sent her a text message congratulating...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mr., Friend, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-11
KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words: Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...; Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance: Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-06
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up: What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...; Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-05
Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?: You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...; Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent: The fate of the Reiser4 file system for Linux may well depend on a verdict rendered by a California jury this week. As an Alameda County jury continues to deliberate the fate of Hans Reiser, the designer of the Reiser File System for Linux who is accused of murdering...; Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Linux Kernel, File System, Verdict, Reiser4, Reiser, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?: Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?That's what a Board of Directors is forLet them do their job. If they don't think the purchase is worth it, it will be shot down.RE: Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?No.Microsoft needs Gates to return ntntGo big or go home!Initiating...; Tags: Portals, Web technology, SEARCH, lobotomy, Initiating Change, Steve Ballmer, Does Microsoft, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-24
Canon's new Vixia HF10: The best (and first) camcorder I've ever owned: About a month before my wife gave birth (which explains where I've been the past few weeks), I got a great piece of purchasing, errrr, parenting advice, from my friend Joe via IM: "though you prolly already have this covered, use this as an excuse to buy photo and...; Tags: Camcorder, Video, Canon Inc., Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Josh Taylor; Blog posts 2008-04-23