Cox Crow

Virtual Private Servers and User-mode Linux apparently draw from IBM's Virtual Machine (VM) inspiration. There's an article on O'Reilly Network about using User-mode Linux for practice shooting, which reminds me somewhat of how MkLinux made use of Mach's ability to run multiple personalities servers.

4:06:05 PM #
categories: Security, System Administration

Interesting interview with Theo de Raadt, of OpenBSD.

3:47:45 PM #

Regarding e-mail worms, are we all a bunch of idiots? When are you going to use a different mail program?

3:29:59 PM #
categories: Messaging

I always wondered how people got so much time to keep up with these things. Must have something to do with pending layoffs.

2:23:39 PM #

Will Apple put Magic in their digital hub? /. readers seem to think they already have: Firewire.

2:09:58 PM #

I'd forgotten about this article of Dave Winer's. "We needed a content management server that allows text editors to hook in, and we must have a text editor that can connect to the content management server."

Quark thought something similar with Quark Publishing System, and again with QuarkDMS. Adobe started thinking outside of their locked box with the WebDAV support in InDesign, but I don't know how far they've gone.

Content management, document management, media asset management, workflow management, each attempts to be monolithic and omnipresent, and fails. Can you pick up my content, and without any prior knowledge of it, allow me to edit it with pretty much anything? Can I step outside the flow without breaking it?

1:16:35 PM #
categories: Writing Online

Amid the philosophical arguments, Linus off-handedly mentions that Sun is doomed. That's not as important as the discussion, but the observation is keen.

12:53:24 PM #
categories: Industry

Looks like Radio Userland may have some non-Microsoft competition.

12:35:08 PM #
categories: Writing Online

/. reviews The Future of Ideas [Slashdot], by Lawrence Lessig. The comments from the peanut gallery are more observant than usual.

Bruce Sterling touches on it as well.

12:30:40 PM #
categories: Language, Law, Media

Disney's cheap penny-pinching miserliness austerity measures have taken their toll on more than just the maps. We've travelled to DisneyWorld four times in the last seven years. This last trip was the first time we stayed on Disney property, the first time that a Disney employee was less than considerate, and the first time we saw trash on Main Street U.S.A.

12:25:29 PM #
categories: Family, Media

"Disney World is cutting back on luxury items like new guidemaps revised and printed weekly) to conserve cash as the economy slinks further and further down the toilet."

12:19:30 PM #

I wonder if someone has patented making a list.

12:10:27 PM #

The Register, by way of Meerkat, notes that "The USPTO furthers its jackassery by granting a patent to SonicBlue (makers of ReplayTV) that covers virtually every aspect of set-top digital video-recorders (i.e., TiVo), including "filing recorded programming into channels, providing previews, storing recordings on a random-access system, and making selections according to programme type and information culled from viewing habits." Way to further innovation, guys." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

12:08:43 PM #

I hate politics. It's never enough, is it?

10:56:56 AM #

Now the Palestinians. Are we still not asking, "why?"

10:05:23 AM #

Inventing an alphabet, real or pretend

9:57:17 AM #

Netwar. Business 2.0 has an article on the subject.

9:52:59 AM #