Video about “free digital content”. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=1]

According to Greg’s email, organizations that contributed more than 100 changesets to the recently released 2.6.23 kernel included: Red Hat with 827 changesets (11.7%), IBM with 557 changesets (7.9%), the Linux Foundation with 528 changesets (7.5%), Novell with 449 changesets (6.3%), Intel with 242 changesets (3.4%), Oracle with 158 changesets (2.2%), MIPS Technologies with 143…

Amy Smith and her work and her student

The traditional path to making a slow operating system is to take a fast one and add features under the 5% rule. If a new feature does not visibly slow the system down or only slows it down 5% or some arbitrary definition of “small”, then it goes in. Each mistake or badly written or…

The FSMLabs web site is finally up with some material about new work. The web site for Finite State Research, our sister company focused on R&D and consulting is also up although it contains very little – FSR is there to develop IP and to consult on more general areas than FSMLabs.

Docomo is using Microsoft DRM products in its phones so that customers can move protected “content” between phones and PCs under control of the DRM software. The goal here is to generate a network effect so that it becomes difficult to find content that is not under such a scheme or devices that will work…

Patent1 Patent2 Nonstop kernel. Suggestions? Something brilliant must have been discovered in 20 years? No?

The trend in standard processor boards is truly an example of the tail wagging the dog. Consumer demand for locking down their PCs to make them slower, more vulnerable to viruses, more expensive, and less capable, is not high. And consumers includes both home computer purchasers and business computer purchasers. What I expect the vendors…

The UNIX file system design is one of the most brilliant constructions in programming with a combination of conceptual simplicity, utility, and suitability for implementation that is hard to match. (Note: this last quality is something that is prized in all engineering disciplines, but we don’t even have a standard term for it in programming.)…

We’re in process of moving to Austin Texas where the humidity should help ripen new ideas.