Month: February 2002

Diary of A Webmaster Part 4 – Backing Up With MySQLDump. WebmasterBase Feb 26 2002 6:16PM ET [Moreover]

Too little too late?. As Novell conitues to wallow in irrelevancy, Messman finally makes a significant move. He axed Stewart Nelson. An actual strategy for Novell has yet to emerge. At the same time, there is incredible untapped talent and technology at Novell. I love a good paradox. As an optimist, I always think it… Continue reading Too little too late?.

As Novell conitues to wallow in irrelevancy, Messman finally makes a significant move. He axed Stewart Nelson.

NYT.  The Supreme Court is going to review Sonny Bono's copyright term extension act!  Woo Hoo!  The thrust of the review is to determine whether or not Congress overstepped its authority in extending copyright protection to 95 years — the Constitution only empowers Congress to protect copyrights for “limited times” in order to foster creativity.  95 years or the life of the… Continue reading NYT

Walmart's PC without an OS.  I think the analysts are missing the point.  I have lots of spare Windows 98 and Me disks that I could use to run this machine.  I also have lots of nice monitors that are still usable.  This is a discount PC for people that have PC parts (Windows and… Continue reading Walmart's PC

Tinderbox. Tinderbox is now available. [Mark Bernstein]

Generation ship dynamics A researcher in Florida has calculated the optimal population for a generation-ship on a 200-year-plus interstellar voyage. For a space trip of 200 years, perhaps eight to 10 generations, his calculations suggest a minimum number of 160 people are needed to maintain a stable population. This would produce around 10 potential marriage… Continue reading Generation ship dynamics

Radio Downstreamer. Clark Venable: 'I'm working on something the last paragraph refers to, decentralization. I'm an anesthesiologist in an academic insitution with a residency program. I'm doing what I call the “laptop Reference” project, in which I'm trying to use Radio to allow residents to have a standard reference set on their local hard disk… Continue reading Radio Downstreamer

Yesterday Dann Sheridan shipped something very cool for Radio — a way to do dynamic browser-based dashboards that link into the core of Radio's XML engine. There isn't a lot of software in Dann's release, but it's still a breakthrough. Talking with John Robb on Friday I asked if this wasn't just a gimmick. Before… Continue reading shipped

Joel on Management. 90% of the programming work is under the covers. [Mark Bernstein]

DMVs Pushing for Standard License. If state motor vehicle agencies get their way, driver's licenses will soon be so smart, they'll be like national ID cards. Maybe even smarter. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]