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Comparing code bases

Comparing code basesThe trouble isyour proposed comparison would do exactly what the legal standard rejects: compare functionality. Two implementations of the same specification would come up as similar.My favorite example is sort. I can write dozens of different implementations of gnu [b]sort[/b] with identical external behavior, yet they're...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Insurance, PC industry, AT&T Corp., Ritchie, patent

Discussion threads 2005-07-22

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UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right

UNIX - Let's get together and feel all rightEric may be right, it ttmight just be too much legal work, but, Sun couldGPL important parts that could be mixed with Linux. Of course that would mean they would have to move to Linux at some point and give up the...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Sun Solaris, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, nothing, UN*X, Unix, AT&T Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Programming Heresy

Programming HeresyIs there any point to your blog anymore Murph?...other than to prove to everyone that you are suffering from a serious case of "Sun Persecution Complex" (see [url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html]here[/url]).Great"Then I made things worse by telling them that a modern equivalent would use PHP with Apache and PostGresSQL and take perhaps...

Tags: Scripting languages, PHP, Java, programming

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

RQS Fund Tracker (widget)

The RQS Fund Tracker is a widget that shows daily returns updated nightly for all of the funds that Ritchie Capital Quantitative Strategies offers to qualified investors. In order to use the widget, one must have a logon and password to the www.ritchiecapital.com/rqs Website. This version is the first release...

Tags: Logon, RQS Fund Tracker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2007-08-01

Could you say 'Unix' in Ada?

Think about this problem for a minute: modify google maps to add the user's choice of socio-metric data about the region shown: how many Andersen's live there? what's the average family size in the region? what's the school age population in the region, by grade?Now think about how you thought...

Tags: Development

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Akmal - Nova100 (widget)

Akmal - Nova100 plays the Akmal Show with Kate Ritchie directly from your desktop without the need for a separate browser window to be open.

Tags: Browser Window, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-04-23

The origin of Unix

Almost everyone thinks that Unix originated with Thomson, Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs in 1969/70, and thats correct but not true. They wrote the first code, originated many of the technologies in Unix, enunciated key design ideas were still exploring today, and demonstrated...

Tags: Operating systems, Multics, Unix

Blog posts 2007-03-30

Resolved: Unix disrupts organizations by flattening hierarchies

Resolved: Unix disrupts organizations by flattening hierarchies Be it resolved that properly managed Unix infrastructures disrupt organizations by reducing the importance of hierarchal reporting relationships as information conduits in an organization. There are lots of subtle components to this. First, we need to agree that organisational...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Unix, hierarchy, PC

Blog posts 2007-03-23

SC plans to build Wi-Fi across state, give out laptops to 8th graders

A new proposal introduced in the South Carolina legislature would give every eighth-grader a laptop computer - and the state would develop a statewide wireless network, reports the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. "This will give South Carolina a unique competitive advantage in terms of economic development and will liberate students who...

Tags: Education Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2007-02-22

"Free" as in "unfettered"

Jorwell's comment yesterday: I still don't see what Unix has to do with it Given that many mini manufacturers were already delivering exactly what you describe back in the eighties including the smart terminals I cannot for the life of me see what...

Tags: GNU

Blog posts 2006-08-11

A sneaky use for the Sun Grid

A sneaky use for the Sun GridGrid as a Basis for Metro Area Networks?I've never deployed Sun Grid, but wonder openly if it would be applicable for support of Metropolitan area networks, e.g., the San Francisco wi-fi deal.Perhaps it's not a compute/floating point intensive task, but additional services would likely...

Tags: NETWORKING, Sol10, Plan 9, Sun Grid, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-05-10

IT Commandment: Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins

In data processing your machine operators are nobodies - essentially semi-skilled labour invisible to anyone outside the glass room. In science based computing (i.e. Unix), however, your sysadmins are the people who work with the user community to make and implement the day to day tactical decisions characterizing successful systems...

Tags: data processing

Blog posts 2006-03-21

Steve Jobs in mouse ears?

Steve Jobs in mouse ears?Content is key hereIf Jobs can do for Disney what he's done for Apple since his return, the company will be in for a real boost.But the key to this deal is all that content. It will certainly put a crimp in the plans of...

Tags: Operating systems, Processors, Unix, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, mouse

Discussion threads 2006-01-23

Google fixes Web site security bug

Google fixes Web site security bugAnother big plus for web based applications.You just have to patch the server, NOT each and every client machine.This may sound like a brokenrecord but once these service providers are held financialy liable for any damages they have caused, this whole nonsense will stop.Why spend...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Web site, Google Inc., server, computer, Web

Discussion threads 2005-10-10

Comparing code bases

The Swartz analysis I discussed Monday reflected an attempt to compare the Red Hat 5.2 source to other code bases including those for SCO OpenServer. To the extent that the documents we have describe the methodology it appears to have consisted of two phases: first an automated review looking...

Tags: Swartz analysis, Coherent, Mark, Williams, Swartz

Blog posts 2005-07-22

Nichievo: re-visiting a lost Linux opportunity

When I did my Nichievo series for Linuxworld.com in mid 2002 my intent was to use a fictional business scenario to illustrate the political considerations that come up when rebellious users want to give Linux a chance. Since the incumbent systems people always fight user directed change and usually prevail,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Linux, Nichievo, Apache Cocoon, XML

Blog posts 2005-07-04

The next application platform will run Linux

The next application platform will run LinuxJust replace Linux with*NIX and this was the EXACT SAME THING that pundits said nearly 20 years ago! Client-server will kill the mainframe! Well in a way it did - colleges dumped their mainframes, and NOW the 55+ year old COBOL programmers need to...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Mainframes, Servers, Microsoft Longhorn, Linux, mainframe

Discussion threads 2005-04-19