If the fight for freedom of the Internet has a center, that center would be in Australia. I’ve long found that the difficulties inherent with trying to enforce censorship and copyright laws, as well as other related legislation, seem to get tested, first, in this country. I wrote on the possible effects of South Australian […]
Category: Technology
Attack of the Techie Woman
All that discussion about weblog statistic programs and Perl and Python in the last posting. I’m finding this incredible urge to tweak coming over me. The last time this happened, I hit FreeBSD Ports with a vengence and almost maxed my server installing goodies. And play, play, play, play! I am Techie Woman! Hear me […]
Stealth P2P
Found this thanks to Rogi: It seems as if a little extra functionality has been riding along with Kazaa when you download the file/music sharing software — P2P technology that will allow the user’s machine to be integrated into a true P2P distributed computing network. Well, that’s not such a bad thing — P2P is good. However, the problem is the people […]
Will not be speaking at NextWare
Well, I’ve pulled out of presenting at the NextWare conference in Baltimore in May. The Penton folks were just terrific and left the door open for me to speak at the Fall conference instead. I need to focus on getting the two books for O’Reilly finished AND finding a job. Definitely finding a job. Speaking […]
No such thing as a full peer
Sorry, a break on earlier topic to jump back momentarily into technology: In regards to the release of Userland’s Radio Community Server — there is no such thing as a full peer. Any machine that must be on 24×7 to serve a community of clients is called a “server”. Why must some people seek to re-write […]
