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Nonessential update: if you are getting a feed, you can update the path /w/feed/ or /w/rss can have the “w/” drop since this is now the main page.

We start the new year with a brand new design and link structure. If you have any trouble with access to pages or with RSS feeds, please drop me a line or leave a comment. thanks The Mngmt.

I found this on Larry McVoy’s site, and repost it every now and then because it is so good. But I’d like to read a Cormac McCarthy version too.

Don Marti in comments below notes Reruns of “I Love Lucy” and “Knight Rider” don’t stop working when the studio fails to bring in writers to maintain them. Maybe the programmers are smarter after all.

Video about “free digital content”. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w&rel=0&color1=0xd6d6d6&color2=0xf0f0f0&border=1]

According to Greg’s email, organizations that contributed more than 100 changesets to the recently released 2.6.23 kernel included: Red Hat with 827 changesets (11.7%), IBM with 557 changesets (7.9%), the Linux Foundation with 528 changesets (7.5%), Novell with 449 changesets

Amy Smith and her work and her student

The traditional path to making a slow operating system is to take a fast one and add features under the 5% rule. If a new feature does not visibly slow the system down or only slows it down 5% or

The FSMLabs web site is finally up with some material about new work. The web site for Finite State Research, our sister company focused on R&D and consulting is also up although it contains very little – FSR is there

Docomo is using Microsoft DRM products in its phones so that customers can move protected “content” between phones and PCs under control of the DRM software. The goal here is to generate a network effect so that it becomes difficult