From LinuxDevices Every Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers, working for more than 100 corporations. An average of 3,621 lines of code are added to the kernel tree every day. A new kernel is released approximately every
who should control the internets
Op-ed in the NYTimes from Damian Kulash Jr. of Ok-Go We can’t allow a system of gatekeepers to get built into the network. The Internet shouldn’t be harnessed for the profit of a few, rather than the good of the
end to end design versus BOM design
Grossly simplifying, some products are Bill of Materials (BOM) products and some are Designed products. BOM products come to market via a process of generating a parts list and then integrating. In place of designers, BOM products have buyers and
we uh, threw those disk drives away, your honor.
“When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired … the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,” the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John
South by Southwest and Apple versus Dell
An old friend in the music business was visiting and we wandered around Austin’s gigantic South by Southwest music and film extravaganza and, of course, I was struck by the effects of Apple’s brilliant product design and marketing. IPods and
Sorcerers apprentice at ATT: Security and privacy and reliability collide again
AT&T considers reading all the packets that cross its lines. Quite an interesting proposal. Tim Wu’s take The prospect of AT&T, already accused of spying on our telephone calls, now scanning every e-mail and download for outlawed content is way
Yale Patt on Abstraction
Abstraction’s a good thing? Abstraction is a good thing if you don’t care about the performance of the underlying entities. You know, so many schools teach freshmen programming in Java. So what’s a data structure? Who cares? My hero is
The smart phone patent
Coming to Marshall Texas. 33 defendents, 128 claims .
Google’s engineering culture
Article in the New Yorker on Google contains a fascinating description of a product design meeting: Page and Brin had wanted an upgrade of an existing product, and they were unhappy with what they were hearing from the engineers. At
Boeing’s clever idea
(Update – great link in John Regehr’s comment) Apparently, passenger, admin, and air control computers are all connected. Here’s a reassuring comment (emphasis added) Boeing spokeswoman Lori Gunter said the wording of the FAA document is misleading, and that the