Monthly Archives: February 2007

Moving on

Posted on February 15, 2007 by yodaiken

FSMLabs is about to make a major change in direction – with a focus on “enterprise” computing. Some of what we plan to do is brand new – for example, we have new ways of speeding up “black-box” trading in … Continue reading →

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Security notes

Posted on February 5, 2007 by yodaiken

David Elliot Bell has an interesting essay on the US government and software security – little “inside baseball”, but informative. He cites my critique of MILS. One of Bell’s points, which is briefly mentioned in my note, is that composition … Continue reading →

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Jim Gray and the existence of working software

Posted on February 3, 2007 by yodaiken

Jim Gray disappeared and I hope he will reappear unharmed. I met him once at a Supercomputing show when Cort Dougan and had just been snubbed by the AIX developers at the PowerPC booth who explained that the Linux PowerPC … Continue reading →

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