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Is Unix Dead?
Is Unix on Borrowed Time?: A star-studded panel agrees that Unix will fall in the face of Linux. "SuSE's Geck said Unix will eventually fade away to be replaced by Linux, while VA Software's Augustin said Linux to him is the next generation of Unix. He too said Unix will ...
Historical Unix Summary
SCO battle rooted in Unix's fragmented history: A good little history of Unix and how it plays into the SCO thing.
Virtual Unix
Microsoft *nix: Interesting. What if Microsoft shipped "Linux for Windows"? On Friday, Microsoft released a free download of Windows Services for Unix version 3.5, a significant upgrade to the Unix integration product they've been offering for about 5 years. I've used it before, mostly as an NFS client, but there's ...
And We're Off to the Races
SCO Mobilizes for IBM Unix Battle: Between this and the Oracle/PeopleSoft imbroglio, enterprise IT has become a soap opera lately: SCO will seek to stop IBM from selling its version of Unix, AIX, which has been shipping since 1990 and accounted for 15 percent of all Unix server operating system ...
The Art of Unix Programming
The Art of Unix Programming: Eric Raymond, hacker extraordinaire and open source champion, has finished his masterwork, "The Art of Unix Programming." And, just like he did with "The Catherdral and the Bazaar" (which is available in XML or PostScript, natch), he's giving it away on his Web site. It's ...
Spolsky on Programming Culture
Biculturalism: Joel Spolsky Windows programmer extraordinare has written a lengthy review of Eric Raymond's book "The Art of Unix Programming." He expands beyond this, however, to examine the cultural differences between Windows and Unix developers in general. What are the cultural differences between Unix and Windows programmers? There ...
UNIX Application or Guerrilla Organization?
Kottke points to a great new list over at Tim McSweeney's List site: 'UNIX Application or Outlawed Paramilitary/Guerrilla Organization?' Also, don't miss 'Paint Color Or Rapper?', or the 'Guide to Determining If You Are Constantly Being Mauled by Bears'. It's like Letterman, only with humor.
Windows and UNIX, with rapid transducing triple induction nanoplasma relays
I usually steer clear of the 'Linux vs. Windows' articles, since almost everything relevant has been beaten to the point of cliché, and what we're left with is endless flame wars. However, this article by Linux News provides a level of technobabble that would make Geordi from Star Trek proud: ...
SCO Officially Warns on Linux
Taking Aim at Linux: You've been warned: "In an aggressive move that could have a profound effect on open-source software and the Unix arena, The SCO Group which owns rights to Unix has issued a warning that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix. The company also says ...
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Explained
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: In an effort to salvage some dignity from the post on what "bin" means, I'll point you to this link provided in the comments by Sauron that explains most of the cryptic directories in your average Unix installation. Of note, "usr" doesn't mean "user." [It's a] secondary ...
JS/UIX
I like UNIX. I like Javascript. But for some reason, JS/UIX scares the bejeesus out of me. JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a vir- tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and ...
SCO's Basis
SCO: Darl-ing for dollars | CNET News.com: This article sheds some more light on what, exactly, made it into Linux from Unix: "'I can see getting three, four, five, lines of code identical,' said Chris Sontag, senior vice president of [SCO], pointing to a nearly full page of allegedly copied ...
Biculturalism
Biculturalism: This is old Spolsky, but it's still good Spolsky -- In this essay from 2003, Spolsky responds to Eric Raymond's just-published (at the time) book, "The Art of Unix Programming". That book is a classic that just drips with old-school Unix disdain for anything else. (Don't confuse that statement ...
Top Ten Unix Commands
Newbie's Top Ten Commands: If you find yourself working at a *inx command line more than you like, and you have little idea what to do, this is a great resource. The information in this document will at least let you get around and look like less of a goon. ...
Verisign Moves to Linux
VeriSign Migrating 2,000 Unix Servers to Red Hat Linux: In the midst of the SCO battle, IBM releases new ads, and now Verisign goes and does this: "In the latest big win for Linux and open source, infrastructure service provider VeriSign has decided to migrate 2,000 of its high-performance Unix ...
Olympian IT
Tackling an IT job of Olympic proportions: Right up there with the NMCI is the job of managing IT for the next Olympics. "The job involves managing a network that unites everything from Unix servers to precision timing devices. After installing several redundant systems, he must guarantee 24/7 reliability and ...
SCO Targets SGI
SCO to yank SGI's Unix license: True to rumors, and just like they did with IBM, SCO has announced it will revoke SGI's license. "'We have received a letter from SCO Group alleging that, as a result of our activities related to the Linux operating system, we are in breach ...
Does AdSense Consider Domain Names?
AdSense Influenced By Domain Names: Does AdSense failover to domain names when it can't figure out the content of a page? Could be I never get PSAs on the front page, and perhaps it's because the "gadget" in "gadgetopia" is ensuring we get in a certain ad group. ...
Novell Does to SCO What SCO Tried to do to Everyone Else
Novell-SCO case finally heading to trial: The details of this case are so juicy and delicious that I m almost drooling with anticipation. I m so loving this. US Bankruptcy Court Judge Kevin Gross has granted Novell s motion to lift SCO s bankruptcy stay so that Novell can continue with its lawsuit, through ...
IBM Releases the Hounds
Big Blue Fires Away: IBM isn't a company to sit idly by and get screwed...I mean, sued. I pity the fool that awakens that beast. "IBM, which is being sued by Lindon, Utah-based SCO for embedding parts of SCO's Unix software code in versions of the free Linux operating system, ...
SCO Gets the Death Blow
Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell: Has the last chapter in SCO s IP land grab been written? Is this finally the end of one of the most pathetic attempts at IP abuse in recent memory? In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal ...
High End Linux Installations
Linux weighs in: With all the hype about Linux on the desktop, and the presumption that Linux runs servers, a lot of people forget that pure Unix is its competitor in the server room. This article is talking about 500 or 1000-processor Linux installs not your everyday workgroup server. ...
Darl McBride, King of Irony
Novell Registers Unix Copyrights: Apparently Novell has registered several copyrights recently to Unix code that SCO claims was transferred to it back in 1995. They did this quietly, with no fanfare. SCO's reaction is just priceless. "We see this as a fraudulent attempt by Novell to get something they don't ...
The History Of Computing, Or Some Of It
We found a gem poking around on the corporate network the other day: a PDF of "The History of Programming Languages", a poster by O'Reilly that shows 50 programming languages and their timelines and interrelationships. Chris posted back in March about the progenitor of this chart, Éric Lévénez's Computer Languages ...
Dispelling OS X Preconceptions
An InfoWorld article by Chad Dickerson tells of his accidental conversion from Windows and Linux to Mac OS X. "On a recent Friday, weary from shopping for a new PC, I grabbed the 3-year-old G4 at my desk and took it home to see what all the Mac and OS ...
SCO Files Bankruptcy
SCO declares bankruptcy after failed patent suits: I am so loving this. Service provider SCO Group ended a major phase in the history of both UNIX and Linux today by declaring chapter 11 bankruptcy, forcing the company to reorganize before it can resume normal business.
SCO: Not Done Yet
Partners fund SCO Group s next lease on life: Why would someone do this? Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners said Thursday it and unnamed Middle Eastern partners will fund The SCO Group with up to $100 million to take over the financially beleaguered Unix company, move it out of bankruptcy ...
One Way to Get Pampers to Stop Leaks
OtherUnix: A funny look at a bunch of other products around the world that use the name "Unix," from diapers to hair dryers. Someone has compiled a list and scanned in a bunch of the labels from the products. A testament to the geek population's ability to entertain themselves at ...
More on SCO's Basis
SCO Owns Your Computer: More information about what SCO is upset about. This looks like more than 80 lines of code to me. "Specifically, [SCO] believes the 'SCO technologies' which were misappropriated into AIX, IRIX, and the derivative UNIX-alikes (including Linux) are: JFS (Journalling File System); NUMA (Non Uniform Memory ...
SCO Losing Money
SCO sees loss on legal fees: This is a good thing. Let's keep those legal fees high. Someone file a lawsuit against them for just being bastards. Controversial Unix software company the SCO Group reported a loss for its fourth quarter on Monday based largely on hefty legal fees the ...
Mind your phraseology!
Here is an exceptionally well-written article about search engine theory from Digital Web magazine. It concentrates on one of the biggest problems facing search engine developers: users will often call something a different name than what the search engine has indexed. Are you looking for "first course" or "appetizer"? "Human ...
Linux Legal Defense Fund
Intel, IBM backing new fund to defend Linux users: The truth of SCO shows through when the mere forming of a legal defense fund to fight them off causes their shares to drop 9%. An industry group formed to promote Linux an operating system that provides an alternative to ...
Details of Microsoft's Funding of SCO
Microsoft millions back SCO case: More on the Microsoft money rolling in the back door of SCO. The SEC filing confirms that Microsoft, which has much to gain from dissuading businesses from adopting Linux, has paid at least two sums to SCO to licence Unix, the second for $8m. [...]James ...
SCO Insurance
Start-up launches Linux legal protection Open Source Risk Management plans on Monday to begin selling Linux users protection against copyright infringement claims such as those levied by the SCO Group. The New York-based company is launching the insurance-like offering after a six-month study that compared Linux with several versions of ...
If Geeks Ran the War
The War on Terror, as viewed from the Bourne shell.: The war on terror, depicted as a Unix command line. $ cd /middle_east $ ls Afghanistan Iraq Libya Saudi_Arabia UAE Algeria Israel Morrocco Sudan Yemen Bahrain Jordan Oman Syria Egypt Kuwait Palestine Tunisia Iran Lebanon Qatar Turkey $ cd Afghanistan ...
Common Font Survey
Code Style: Sans serif font sampler and comparison: Here's a great article that answers a perennial question: what fonts can I use in my CSS? Font selection for the Web should be based on a generic font family to ensure an appropriate type style is rendered in any circumstances. Specific ...
SCO Gets Hacked
Hackers cut off SCO Web site "SCO's Web site was largely out of commission until Monday morning, a representative of the Lindon, Utah-based Unix and Linux seller said Monday. Performance measurement statistics from Netcraft indicated that the site had been down since Friday night." I wondered how long it would ...
Photos 4.0
Alex King just released Photos 4.0 (formerly known as Gallery). It's a web-based photo database for storing, cataloging, and retrieving photos, but NOT for publishing web galleries. It can import photos by the folder or one at a time, and stores a thumbnail of each image. It's designed for "Anyone ...
That's Why You Protect /etc/passwd
Think MD5 is good enough to keep all of your passwords secure? There's a reason that modern UNIX systems recommend you use shadow passwords, and this is it: This project is dedicated to crack md5 hashes online through web interface. At the moment we can crack md5 hashes in this ...
When To Move to Linux
The real cost of switching to Linux: Here's a well-written, well-researched article considering when it makes sense to migrate to Linux and when it doesn't. No easy answers here, but it's very balanced. "The simple answer is this: The more fully an enterprise adopts Linux across its infrastructure, the more ...
Another SCO Summary
The whole SCO-IBM-Linux-Novell-MS mess explained: These are getting so commonplace, that I'm tempted to write a summary of the summaries. Still, some good information here. "Wall Street certainly hasn't written off SCO, which was trading above $10 per share on Thursday. That's up from $2.21 in March, the day before ...
mv pizza > /dev/mouth
Hungry for some pizza, but can't stand all that pesky human interaction you have to put up with ordering it on the phone? Pizza Party is your answer: Pizza Party is a free text based software package for ordering pizza, or for throwing pizza parties. Pizza Party has many features ...
Sun Tries to Poach AIX Customers
Sun Sets Sights on IBM's AIX Customers: In the SCO/IBM drama, Sun is playing the role that SAP is playing in the Oracle/PeopleSoft production: Moving to profit from SCO Group's revocation of IBM's Unix license (which IBM denies SCO has the right to do), Sun Microsystems charged in to play ...
And the Biggest Database in the World Is...
Survey Ranks Top Ten Biggest, Most Popular Databases: Let's try to do an import of one of these databases into Microsoft Access. Taking home the prize for largest database size for all OS environments and Unix, for the DSS portion was France Telecom boasting 29.2TB. France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. ...
What's the Future of United Linux?
Opinion: Should UnitedLinux Boot SCO?: UnitedLinux was formed several years ago in an attempt to bring some continuity to Linux distributions unite file system structure, etc. One of the four founding members was Caldera...now SCO. Hilarity ensues. "...in March of 2003, the organization's unity appeared to be torn asunder ...
He's Got a Mouth on Him
As part of their coverage of Microsoft's recent broad settlement with Sun, CNET has compiled a short list of Scott McNealy's snarky comments regarding Microsoft. A lot of it is a bit over the top, but it's all pretty funny. My favorite: "the Corvair of Web servers, unsafe at any ...
Apple Aiming for Enterprise Market
According to an article on ThinkSecret, Apple Computer has assembled an Enterprise Sales Group that will focus on selling the Xserve and Xserve RAID to big-time IT management groups. The Xserve and matching RAID box have been catching on in IT circles, what with the combination of slick hardware and ...
The Command Line Is Your Friend
I maintain a web site that runs off of a content management system. The whole deal is database driven, and the content is identified by numeric ID's. I wanted to know which items of content are actually being used on the site so I could get rid of the ones ...
SCO May Sue Another Company
SCO's next target: SGI? "Chris Sontag, the senior vice president in charge of SCO's effort to derive more revenue from its Unix intellectual property, has said two things that suggest SGI is a likely target. First, Sontag said in June that SCO is contemplating legal action against another major North ...
Study: .Net Tops J2EE
Forrester: Windows Platform Bests Linux For Application Development: Don't go jumping to conclusions Microsoft did commission this study. "On Tuesday, Forrester Research's Giga Information Group unit is expected to release the results of a study commissioned by Microsoft finding that applications developed and deployed on Windows are cheaper to ...
SCO Hacked Again
SCO Group Web site allegedly hacked again: Of all the demographics on the Net to piss off, old-school Unix hackers wouldn't be my first choice. The denial-of-service attack started at 6:20 a.m. ET Wednesday and continued through the day, said Blake Stowell, spokesman for the Lindon-based company. Unidentified attackers managed ...
Hotmail Upgrade Coming
Hotmail Overhaul on the Way: Some changes over at Hotmail. If you log into your account, they have a Flash demo of what's to come. The biggest thing is mailing sorting, and Hotmails edging towards what I think is the future of email clients: blacklisting (to one extent or the ...
Gartner on Linux and SCO
SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market: Gartner has issued a stronger warning on using Linux in the enterprise. They've warned about this before, but this time they even advised a certain segment to pay off SCO: "Don't ignore the problem by hoping IBM will win or settle its lawsuit ...
Delicious Eye Candy
X.Org is set to release a new version of their X11 server tomorrow (X11 is the system that drives the GUI desktop on Linux and other UNIX systems). The notable part of this release will be extensions to the X protocol that will allow more flexibility in the compositing of ...
djbdns
I've been setting up a new server lately, and in the process I've been reevaluating a lot of the software I use on my servers. One of the things I've been dreading more than anything else is moving over DNS services. My old server runs BIND, and has 40+ domain ...
Nethack
This week's Friday diversion is not one to pick up lightly. Nethack has been destroying the social skills and tanned complexions of geeks for years. It's a "Rogue-like" game that was originally written for old UNIX systems in the early 80's as an adventure game that could be played on ...
The Perfect Programming Language
Being Popular: Here's an extremely long but interesting essay from Paul Graham about how to design the perfect programming language. He has no plans to do this, of course, but in considering the question he covers a lot of ground on why certain languages have thrived and others haven't. For ...
Bill Joy and "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us"
Bill Joy to leave Sun: It's tough to overstate the importance of this. The man invented vi, for goodness sakes. After more than 20 years at Sun Microsystems Inc., cofounder and Chief Scientist Bill Joy is leaving the company, Sun announced Tuesday. Joy, once called the "Edison of the Internet" ...
Pig Latin and Platform Independence
IT Conversations: Joel Spolsky - Joel on Software: This is a great MP3 interview with Spolsky. (I know, I'm pathetic -- I should just move to New York and start stalking him...) Towards the end of it (it's almost an hour), he talks about making sure you don't bind your ...
Catfight Thursday
Why is it Catfight Thursday you ask? Well, for one, Apple's taking swipes at Microsoft's new MSN Music Service: "It's biggest problem may be that its downloaded songs can not play on the iPod," said Eddie Cue, Apple's vice president of applications. Gates fires back regarding Microsoft's focus on portable ...
Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?
vs. Linux GUI: Owen found an interview that really, really hits the nail on the head about a big problem with Linux. Right now, the Linux community values "diversity" too highly to ever get a single, consistent GUI, let alone a good one. At the same time, it holds on ...
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