Open warfare as rivals line up to succeed Blair. Tony Blair's premiership appeared to be entering its final phase yesterday, with Cabinet ministers led by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, openly manoeuvring to succeed him. [The Scotsman]
Author: Vince Kimball
Cisco Source Code Reportedly Stolen
eWeek – Cisco Source Code Reportedly Stolen. SecurityLab is reporting that the source code for Cisco Systems Inc.'s main networking device operating system was stolen on Thursday. According to the report, criminal hackers broke into Cisco's corporate network and stole 800MB of source code for IOS 12.3 and 12.3t (an early deployment version containing features… Continue reading Cisco Source Code Reportedly Stolen
Hard versus Soft America
Hard versus Soft America. Michael Barone in today's LA Times (R): It has long been my observation that American 18-year-olds are more incompetent than 18-year-olds in other advanced countries, but that American 30-year-olds are the most competent 30-year-olds in the world. …Why should this be so? I think it's because from ages 6 to 18… Continue reading Hard versus Soft America
Fraud in Online Job Listings
Fraud in Online Job Listings. Some job seekers who turn to the Internet for help-wanted listings are learning about fraud the hard way. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology]
Intel's Big Shift After Hitting Technical Wall
NY Times: Intel's Big Shift After Hitting Technical Wall. Last week after the company said that it was making a fundamental break with its traditional chip design approach, some analysts and former Intel designers said that Intel was coming to terms with escalating heat problems so severe they threatened to cause its chips to fracture… Continue reading Intel's Big Shift After Hitting Technical Wall
Welcome to the 'Smart Ploggers'
Welcome to the 'Smart Ploggers'. No, it's not a typo. A plog is short for 'project log' like a blog is short for 'weblog' or 'web log.' And plogs start to be used as tools to manage projects, especially in the IT world, as discovered Michael Schrage of the MIT. He reports his findings in… Continue reading Welcome to the 'Smart Ploggers'
Frontier kernel open-source
Frontier kernel open-source. Dave Winer announced that the Frontier kernel—the C code, the internals of the application—will be made open-source. I’m glad: I think it’s a good thing for Frontier and Radio and their users. During the latter part of my stint at UserLand I worked on the Frontier kernel. A big part of my… Continue reading Frontier kernel open-source
Getting Naked for Big Brother
Getting Naked for Big Brother. People are willing to strip for Uncle Sam and accept surveillance technologies to protect them from terrorists, though the privacy invasions won't make them any safer. Kim Zetter interviews the author of The Naked Crowd. [Wired News]
A little too late
A little too late. Open Source release of Frontier?. Wow – UserLand plans open-source release of Frontier kernel. The kernel includes things like the UserTalk script interpreter, all the UserTalk builtin functions, the Frontier ODB and the Frontier web server. I don't expect that it will gather as many developers as the big open source… Continue reading A little too late
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis: “You can't be a software company and a service company under one roof, for you will inevitably end up competing with your customers.” [Scripting News] Hmm, most major software companies have a services group, don't they?