These are articles that I've read that I don't want to lose track of.
1 December 2003
Desktop Linux Technology and Market Overview
http://www.osafoundation.org/desktop-linux-overview.pdf (34 page PDF)
"This report gives an overview of the state of Linux on the desktop, both from a technology perspective and in terms of marketplace developments. It concludes that, while much work remains to be done, desktop Linux is now 'good enough' for significant classes of users. ... While technical challenges remain, we agree with several of the people we spoke with who argued that desktop Linux has evolved from being a technical challenge to a marketing challenge."
2 December 2003
Digital Hubris: Apple's Tablet Computer Might Finally Be That Link Between Your PC and TV
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031127.html
"What's needed is a networking technology optimized for video transport. One has been in the works for sometime, and down at the IEEE, they call it 802.15.3, and this is where I believe Apple sees opportunity."
Sucking Through a Straw: A Bandwidth Drought is Coming, and U.S. Phone Companies and ISPs Have No Idea What to Do About It
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030626.html
"If we are going to get to HDTV video-on-demand in every home, to wall-sized video conferences with Grandma, to the communication utopia described by every so-called expert, it is going to require massive increases in bandwidth. ... If we leave it to the phone companies, though, it will never happen."
Snapster 2.0: This Time I Really Mean It
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030731.html
"Snapster 2.0 separates the concept of ownership from that of playing music or copying it. While those 100,000 CDs are still owned by all the shareholders, they really exist only as a central repository to simplify the sharing system from both a logistical and a legal standpoint."
Body Count: Why Moving to India Won't Really Help IT
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030807.html
"Productivity is producing more with fewer resources, usually with fewer people. It's all about simplification, reducing or eliminating labor, improving tools, locking in on a standard approach and being smart about changes."
No Feather in Our CAPPS: How We Are About to Spend a Lot of Money and (Again) Alienate Our Allies by Building a Computer System That Invades Privacy and Does Nothing to Make Us More Secure
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031016.html
"We look at security as a cost, not an opportunity to improve our infrastructure. CAPPS-II is an electronic Maginot Line that will cost a lot, is vulnerable to abuse, will cause rifts in our own community and with our neighbors, and will ultimately achieve no good at all."
The First Time is Free: Microsoft's Peculiar Profit Obsession, .NET, and What It All Really Means
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031113.html
"Microsoft wants to get into the TRANSACTION business. Initially, this may mean media delivery and digital rights management, but the ultimate goal is to use the same technology to handle almost any transfer of money or credit anywhere."
Natural Deselection: Not Even Microsoft Will Last Forever, but They Plan to Try
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031120.html
"None of this has to do with making computing more reliable or seamless or more trustworthy or whatever this week's catchphrase is. It has to do with improving Microsoft's financial picture at a time when the company is trying to reinvent itself as a media delivery/DRM outfit."
I'm With Stupid: How Having Friends Might Be the Key to Both Privacy and Identity
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031009.html
"Yet nearly everything we do to combat crime or enhance safety comes at the expense of reduced efficiency. So we build airports to make possible efficient air transportation, then set up metal detectors to slow down the flow of passengers. We build highways to make car travel faster, then set speed limits to make it slower."
Changing the Game: How to Save the World by Taking Back Control of Our Data
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031002.html
"... we not long ago had a vision of something better that could be achieved through technology. This was the cypherpunk dream of ubiquitous information security, perfect secrecy and anonymity, untraceable e-cash serving to enhance democracy, protect the small guy, circumvent censorship, form a parallel economy beyond the taxman's reach, reducing the power of states. That was yesterday's news."
Stream on: How Microsoft, on the Brink of Defeat, Could Still Win the Streaming Video War
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030821.html
"Microsoft -- which probably hasn't quite figured this out yet but eventually will -- now has to OWN the 37 Burst patents. Owning the Burst patents would tilt the playing field again in Microsoft's favor."
Voter Flawed: A Follow-Up on Several Back Columns and Can Diebold Voting Machines Really Be Hacked?
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030717.html
"The DCS-1000 or Carnivore system is apparently rife with security defects, starting with the fact that it is a Windows 2000 box exposed to the Internet, typically not behind the firewall, at the ISP and remote-controlled from the FBI office using PCAnywhere. The data it captures are downloaded insecurely in the PCAnywhere session."
5 December 2003
Debian Reference: Chapter 3 - Debian System installation hints
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-install.en.html
Debian Reference: Chapter 4 - Debian tutorials
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tutorial.en.html
"This section provides a basic orientation to the Debian world for the real newbie. If you have been using any Unix-like system for a while, you probably know everything I explained here. Please use this as a reality check."
Debian Reference: Chapter 7 - The Linux kernel under Debian
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html
"Debian has its own method of recompiling the kernel and related modules."
Debian Reference: Chapter 8 - Debian tips
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html
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