If I Shift A Bit, You Must Acquit!

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From the like-we-didnt-see-this-coming department: Good old Hans has been convicted of first degree murder. Specifically, Hans Reiser was convicted of murdering his wife Nina. Authorities had no body, no physical evidence and no reliable eye witness testimony (sound familiar?). All that was missing from this trial was Kato. Reiser, who created the widely used Reiser [...]

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More OLPC uproar

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I think its safe to say that most ideas are great until implemented by human beings. Once again, the Free/Open source community is up in arms over Microsoft products (optionally) shipping on the one laptop per child. The resignation of OLPC’s chief software architect Walter Bender shows a clear and broadening difference of opinion and [...]

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No more space tours after 2010

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I really want to go to space before I die. I’m a globe trekker, if there is somewhere to go there’s a good chance that I want to go there. Space is the ultimate road trip. To get into space, you need two things. About $40 million and good launch weather. The Russian space agency [...]

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Hello, Yahoo

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I’ve begun using Yahoo for all that I can in an effort to help them resist a hostile takeover by Microsoft. What am I doing? Using Yahoo more Favoring ads to neat geek stuff served by Yahoo Asking my friends to stop using Microsoft products (that’s nothing new) I don’t want to see Microsoft advance [...]

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The beginning of MySQL’s end

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I’m pleased to announce another runner-up for 2008′s biggest brain dead blunder award. MySQL has elected to shift development focus to their enterprise offerings (making more code proprietary), likely leaving the free/open source offerings to gather mold. This is a classic case of a company not understanding how people actually use their products and the [...]

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SRCE 1.0.9 maintenance release

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I’m putting together a source maintenance release for SRCE that addresses some build issues on Fedora 8 and 9 (x86_64). Namely, I finished properizing its implementation of beecrypt so that the static library is built arch specific. Up till now, the shrunken beecrypt library was included pre-compiled. I might also finish properly integrating autoconf. For [...]

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Why I don’t take PayPal

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A few clients have asked me why I don’t accept payments via PayPal. This question is very easy to answer: Unless you sell (real) goods that you ship with a tracking number, PayPal allows crooks to rip you off by filing bogus disputes. My product is my time. I can not produce a “fedex tracking [...]

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The Internet and superstition

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Watching human behavior manifest ‘digitally’ is almost as fun as people-watching in the park. We’ve done a bang up job of bringing real life into digital life (and vice-versa). I was wondering today, how will superstition manifest itself on-line? A person I worked with a few years ago moved his mouse a tiny bit to [...]

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