"I wrote Practical Common Lisp because I felt that Common Lisp needed a new introductory book that could ease folks raised on other languages into Common Lisp and then show them what it’s really all about..."
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Apple's Christmas gifts to open source
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Apple gets a lot of grief for being a net pillager of open source. The company has adopted open-source software into critically important products, yet gives little in return (so the story goes). And yet the Mac gets a lot of love from the open-source crowd. Why? What has Apple done to deserve it?
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Interview: John Hull of Dell
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It has been over four months since Dell started shipping computers preloaded with Ubuntu GNU/Linux to home consumers in the United States. Lets take a moment to look at the progress that has been made so far. John Hull, manager of the Linux Engineering team in Austin was kind enough to let me interview him by e-mail. Besides commenting on the current state of affairs with Ubuntu on Dell machines, he also offers some insight in how the Linux team at Dell works and opens a small window into the future of Linux at Dell.
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Tech charities to consider this giving season
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As part of my year-end planning I look at what charities to donate to, since charitable contributions are tax-deductible. Here's a list of charities with ties to free software, open source, and information technology.
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Mozilla: Introducing Weave
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"As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. One important area for exploration is the blending of the desktop and the Web through deeper integration of the browser with online services. We’re now launching a new project within Mozilla Labs to formally explore this integration..."
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How the web began
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"...In such contest, an essential point was that the Web should remain an open standard for all to use and for no-one to lock up into a proprietary system..."
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The Weakest Link :)
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"Test yourself with these questions from The Weakest Link. [..]
17. Name the hacker and political campaigner who founded The Free Software Foundation, and whose name is frequently abbreviated to RMS.
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Computing in the Cloud
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"...I'm going to talk about the AGPL 3.0, why it's important that we put effort into figuring out what freedom for different technologies means, and what the components of freedom for web services might be."
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Freedom Summer of Code
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"...The kind birds from your trusty tech collective have hatched a new organization! We call it Riseup Labs. [...] Riseup Labs is actively developing social networking software that is geared specifically to the needs of network organizing and democratic collaboration. We are also planning to make riseup.net nearly impossible to shut down, provide new services, and greatly enhance your security and privacy..."
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Samba team gains tech docs from EU Microsoft antitrust suit
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"The Samba team will soon get the fruits of the EU antitrust suit against Microsoft. Samba is software which allows an operating system to communicate with Microsoft Windows shared folders and printers over a network. The network protocols Microsoft uses are secret and had to be determined by Samba programmers by listening on the wire to see what Microsoft’s proprietary software would do given a particular input. Microsoft had to be forced to produce the documentation for various network protocols they use..."
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Wikia Will Search. But When?
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"Search Wikia *will* launch before 2008!!" via http://searchwikia.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/search-wikia-will-launch-bef...
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Serious Flash vulns menace at least 10,000 websites
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Researchers from Google have documented serious vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash content which leave tens of thousands of websites susceptible to attacks that steal the personal details of visitors.
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Where Linux Can Leap Ahead - Part 3
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In my opinion, large businesses are too tied to a big system based in Windows to switch to Linux, but creative professionals and small businesses have much less of a tie to any particular operating system and if there were applications that did what they need to Linux, they would switch.
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Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!?
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According to www.y2k38.info, all 32 bit Unix and Linux systems, in their current state, will come to a halt on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07. This is due to the fact that *nix systems keep track of time in a four byte integer corresponding to the number of seconds after January 1, 1970 12:00:00. The maximum value of a four byte integer is 2,146,483,547 which is equivalent of January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07.
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Why Microsoft Loves Google Android, Take 2
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Ed Burnette wrote a rebuttal to my blog post, "Why Microsoft Loves Google Android", which was high-spirited. Reputation bashing aside, I like high-spirited debates.
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