Tuesday, February 12, 2002

[Scripting News] BTW, people are buzzing about Six Degrees. I look forward to trying it. Now a little-known fact -- it's done with XML-RPC. How about that. A desktop app that uses XML-RPC. Just like Radio. I bet the two programs will even work together. In incredible ways.   9:55:34 PM

[The New York Times: Technology] Microsoft Putting Its Muscle Behind Web Programming Tools. Microsoft begins a huge campaign Wednesday to woo millions of computer programmers to use its new generation of Internet software tools. 9:53:31 PM

[Tomalak's Realm] Web Architect: The Crime of Sharing. John Perry Barlow. I know that this is a fairly obvious observation. That's why I'm stunned that so many kinds of sharing have suddenly, without public debate, become criminal acts. For instance, lending a book to a friend is still all right, but letting him read the same book electronically is now a theft. I don't totally disagree with the overall direction of this, but on the other hand, this comparison is just dumb -- when you loan a friend your book, you don't have it any more. Xeroxing the book and giving the copy to a friend *is* illegal. Still, it is silly to think that we should shoe horn IP on on modern media into the mechanism for regulating IP redistribution that has historically been used (ie the economics of the physical media) -- just doesn't hold. Time to find a new basis for regulating IP... or not... seems to me, just keeping people from making big business of illegal redistributing is enough to make business profitable, if only someone would have the courage to try it. 4:57:05 PM

[diveintomark] Emacs for Mac OS X. Emacs 21 for Mac OS X [via View From The Heart] Not the text-only version, this is apparently a full-blown Carbon application. Download. 4:09:25 PM

[80211b News] Cringely claims passive antennas up in the old oak tree connect his fortress of arrogance with Santa Rosa, while Flickenger politely dissents and invites Cringely to speak: Cringely's article is about using two connected, unpowered yagi antennas on a nearby mountain top to relay his Wi-Fi signal from his own high mountain aerie to a wISP in Santa Rosa. (Fortress of arrogance is a tip to Dr. Science, and is only a slight exaggeration given Cringely.) Flickenger dissents, wondering how Cringely has outsmarted (with insufficient detail) the brightest or at least hardest-working minds in rock, roll, and community Wi-Fi. Worth reading both halves of the story. Hey, Bob: let slip the secrets! 4:08:58 PM

As much as it frustrates me not to have authority or responsibilities beyond programming, I am happy that dxpc is something I get to use as part of my work. because of all that it implies... 10:38:52 AM

[Slashdot] OpenMosix clustering software or operating system? not sure. definitely clustering 10:11:54 AM

[BBC World] Silent Enron boss faces Congress anger. The ex-chairman of the failed energy giant appears before a Congressional hearing, but exercises his right not to incriminate himself. you could see this coming a mile away. even last week when he he really would testify this week. 10:09:54 AM

[80211b News] Enter Bill Gurley, a smart analyst I've been following for years: "It turns out there are Jim Shelby's all over the contry." He notes that Wi-Fi is cheap and flexible. 10:07:06 AM