Sometimes the biggest explosions are the quietest. Microsoft has been ordered to share its sourcecode for Windows XP with several states.
Sometimes the biggest explosions are the quietest. Microsoft has been ordered to share its sourcecode for Windows XP with several states.
Last night was another one of those nights. I was up till 3 getting staging working. Tonight or tomorrow, I'll rename everybody.org to batman.everybody.org (to join robin and superman) and move it from FreeBSD to Debian GNU/Linux.
The main thing I accomplished was to get the filesystem on staging switched to XFS which seems to be the journaling filesystem under Linux that has the best mixture of stability, maturity, and support. By the way, IBM's developerWorks has a good article on XFS in its series on Linux filesystems.
In this Cyrpto-Gram:
Microsoft has made so many empty claims about their security processes — and the security of their processes — that when I hear another one I can't help believing it's more of the same flim-flam.
Of course, later on he says Implementation of Microsoft SOAP, a protocol running over HTTP precisely so it could bypass firewalls, should be withdrawn. I think that Dave Winer would have something to say about this. There is no such thing as "Microsoft SOAP" and there are SOAP implementations that don't rely on Microsoft software. (The wonderful SOAP::Lite is an awesome example.) Yes, the designers of SOAP shouldn't think that SOAP is great because it can get past firewalls. It can't. I couldn't get out of the Navy's firewall with SOAP when I was at the JRB and they allowed HTTP.
But, SOAP is great for other reasons. The "S" stands for "Simple" and, often, it is.
But I forgive Bruce Schneier (yes, I know, how magnanimous of me) for his overreaching on SOAP because of this great quote later on about Oracle:
"Unbreakable" has a meaning. It means that it can't be broken. It doesn't mean "Unbreakable, except by people who know how to break things."
Dave Winer (not a poor man) wrote:
So many people I know bought California Lottery tickets last week. With the jackpot at $193 million, I guess people wanted a chance to make all that money. I wondered why, so I asked. "Oh I'd give money to all my friends," one friend said to me. "They'd hate you then," I said. She didn't get it. Perhaps it doesn't make sense at first, but then I heard a report on KCBS, they were interviewing people at the Half Moon Bay supermarket where one of the winning tickets was sold. "What would you do if a friend of yours won?" the reporter asked. "I'd kill them," blurted the woman he was interviewing. I'm sure she wouldn't actually kill the person, but the anger sounded real. I suppose if someone earns their wealth the hatred isn't as deep, but most people don't really think anyone earns that much money, not like you earn a paycheck or a diploma. And of course the lottery is pure luck. That much money divides you from almost everyone you know. In a sense, that's what money is for, to buy distance. That's why so many rich people are unhappy.
Dave probably knows what he's talking about as he has a couple million or so himself. People hate the rich. They all want to be rich, but they hate them. Well, resent them, at least.
