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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

Additional Resources

World's Largest Auctioneer Sees Nearly 40 Percent Savings With HP BladeSystem

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers is one company that understands this challenge well. Over fifty years ago the firm started in British Columbia, Canada, when three brothers held an auction to sell surplus inventory from their furniture store. It needed to provide compact and scalable infrastructure to support growth and gain real-time...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoption

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoptionGood idea. One of my gripes has already been written aboutright here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=62587&messageID=1175162#7468564444263411314&authId=Z6HGiN/lieHAYr2cBP3nkh6ZvIQSz/q5p+rs/WKQqRniE3yqBqrAzZ3UEVN5DV2K- KcWindows applications under WINE......have to be well written apps, conforming to Microsoft's Windows API's. Any application that uses "tricks", or undocumented calls, will not work under WINE. I would not refer to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux Apps, Linux-adoption, Linux, wine, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoption

What are the problems that need to be solved to boost Linux adoption? And in what order? If we get the order right, we can make more users happier faster, says Scott Ritchie. Ritchie starts by looking at bugs in Wine. After 16 years in development (give...

Tags: Bug, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-04-18

Interview: SAP's global head of project operations [podcast]

To better understand SAP's strategic thinking on managing complex IT projects, I spoke with Paul Ritchie, the company's Head of Global Project Management Operations. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Project, Podcast, Information Technology, Project Manager, SAP AG, Paul, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-04-13

iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 walkthrough

I was pleased with the iPhone 3.0 announcement and actually ended up purchasing a new iPhone 3G device for myself so I can take full advantage of the new operating system. Rene Ritchie posted a detailed walkthrough of the iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 software that has me wanting this update...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Beta, 3G, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-03-24

The Future of Unix

Present day commercial Unix versions are well behind the research community. As far back as 1982 the single machine focus of Unix development became an issue in the research community. Accordingly a number of people at Bell Labs including Dennis Ritchie and Rob Pike, both of whom had contributed to...

Tags: Plan 9, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-20

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 40th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (1) Almost everything you really need to know about Unix or Unics as it was first known and the open source movement can be gleaned from...

Tags: Open Source, Multics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-06

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 1 (Windows)

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: Fund, Logon, Han Tunca, RQS Fund Tracker, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Operating Systems, Software, 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

Reflections on the command line

Reflections on the command lineChoiceAs a 1-year Linux user (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppy, DSL), I want to be able to do *everything* in a graphical way. With the mouse. In it's latest and greatest, Ubuntu has nearly achieved that, which is very good. A great leap forward compared to Ubuntu 6.06...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, command line, Good Morning

Discussion threads 2007-05-02

Akmal - Nova100 1 (Windows)

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, George Mallia, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, 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