Thursday, May 02, 2002

Rice Bowl 4:12:47 PM

IBM: Web services need Sun. In an about-face, Big Blue is paving the way for its rival to join a key Web services standards organization, hoping to quell political infighting that could put a damper on the emerging technology. [CNET News.com] 4:04:33 PM

Neurotransmitters The essay explores future directions in distributed computing. 3:46:04 PM

MS' MIT prof witness gets toasted over KDE, GNOME. Drenched in GUI stuff... [The Register] It's pretty easy to see what the point that the professor is trying to make. There are commonly used shells in linux world that depend on an html renderer. Remove the renderer and the shell doesn't work. However there exists more then one shell. This is also true in windows. You can change your shell to progman, or a single command prompt window, but this still won't help those apps that you have broken because you removed the dependant components from the system. This is such a simple concept that I don't understand why the laywers are still fighting about it. Linux is not linux without that kernel with it's apis. Windows is not windows without it's apis. When you name a platform entity, you are implying some common things that dependant app can expect, remove thoose things and you don't have that entity anymore. 3:28:46 PM

There is a bill in Peru that intends to make open source software the only type usable in Peru. There is the start of a discussion going on here finally on stallman's freedom turf instead of the save a buck turf. Here is the congressman's response to a Microsoft's GM letter. 11:41:44 AM

Apple: How did Apple Ship 220k iMacs in Q2?. "I like to believe in the occasional appearance of human excellence in the face of challenging conditions." [The Motley Fool] 10:13:03 AM

Tech exec exodus expected to continue. The early retirement of Sun COO Ed Zander shocked Wall Street and stunned employees, but he will have plenty of company among tech stars recently liberated from employment. [CNET News.com] 10:05:44 AM

Evolution: Exchanging Microsoft [InfoAnarchy] I really should figure out how to do a radio or rss plugin for outlook. 9:53:10 AM

Solaris 9 to beef up OS, application security. In your shell-like [The Register] 9:44:28 AM

Fatal Flaws in the Justice System. As we continue to lock people up longer, faster and with fewer safeguards, we run an ever greater risk that justice is routinely not being served. By David Feige. [New York Times: Opinion] 9:29:22 AM

Priests and the Hypocrisy of Zero Tolerance. On one issue, the Vatican is correct: It rejected a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse in the priesthood. By Alan Wolfe. [New York Times: Opinion] 9:21:46 AM

Content's King Jamie Kellner controls Turner's programming riches. What he does with them could speed up--or slow down--the transformation of television. [cableworld] 8:28:23 AM