Theo de Raadt explains why virtualization does not improve security. How about this: to improve security, you have to have a secure design, a marketing
Read moreSilver Bullets
Like many famous papers, Fred Brooks No Silver Bullet is more referenced than read but it deserves better. Here is Brooks explaining why verification hype,
Read moreOSIM Madrid and Value Manifolds
Spent a couple of very interesting days at the OSIM conference in Madrid as part of my consulting for WindRiver which has a very powerful
Read moreExciting moments in fiber
… the first truly game changing advance in bend-insensitive fiber came at the FTTH Council Europe meeting in Amsterdam early 2005, when an NTT engineer
Read moreThinking like a subcontractor
Many industries are organized so that a small group of companies controls the “product” and sit on top of a pyramid of subcontractors who provide
Read moreApple’s strategic brilliance
I may be reading too much into it, but Apple looks to have come up with a strategy to pass Microsoft in the next ten
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Carbon neutral processors and ecocidal operating systems
Data centers are reckless consumers of power. Since modern processors leak somewhere in the neighborhood of 40% of their peak power consumption even when idle
Read moreuniversal machinery
If even 20% of what Peter Gutman says is so, then I’ve been optimistic in my assessement of DRM.
Read moreGPL Interface arguments and proprietary kernel modules
(rewritten for clarity Aug 21, 22, 2007) Changing interfaces of GPL software is permitted under the GPL. The license specifically permits anyone to make any
Read moreEasy patent solution: Exponential method
Suppose that we said each year, each person named as an inventor or each company or person named as an assignee on a patent qualified
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