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Archive for July, 2005

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Open Source May Stifle Excitement – Not Innovation

Gartner gathered a lot of press saying open source stifles progress and innovation in the technology market. Today as I read about the new IBM z9 mainframe, over at The Register and thought about something – open source may stifle excitement not innovation… With open source, we know the roadmap, we can see the developer builds as they progress… What’s missing with open source is that “new product announcement” that wows the crowd and no one expected. Although come to think of it I also saw a post that Windows Vista has already been pirated – This lack of excitement may not be just an open source issue. I wonder if Gartner will also declare MSFT is killing innovation now…

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Google Hybrid – The Coolest Thing Since … Google Maps!

I have to hand it to Google for putting out some great, innovative technology. If you haven’t been by maps.google.com in a while, check out their new “hybrid” view. It overlays street information, directions, and your start/end points onto the Google satellite view. Now this is innovation – both business and technical innovation.

Check it out here.

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

ICMP only good on BSD

Apparently there are a few design flaws that have left most ICMP implementations vulnerable… This author suggests BSD is the only distro to have fully confronted all the issues. I haven’t followed anything on ICMP in so many years I actually have no view on this other than how fast will everyone else fix this now that it made news on Slashdot today?

http://kerneltrap.org/node/5382

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

Xen Zen

Xen is pretty cool -> it’s an x86 hypervisor technology that allows you to boot multiple OSs in a virutal machine similar to UML and VMware… Red Hat, Sun, and others have decided to support it already – Microsoft has decided it can do better on it’s own version of a hypervisor and so far won’t be using Xen… Here’s a great article showcasing what it can do. Visit Xensource’s site to download it – I’ll warn you it’s a tricky install if not supported by your distro.