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Shawn Powers has a message for hardware vendors. Listen up!

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It’s time to get ornery again with the FCC. Fortunately, they’re asking for it, by soliciting comment on this FCC rulemaking proposal for "Service Rules for Advanced Wireless Services in the 1915-1920 MHz, 1995-2000 MHz, 2020-2025 MHz and 2175-2180 MHz Bands.

It’s a chocolate-covered spider.

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I don’t think I know anyone who relishes the task of data manipulation, and I’m certainly not different. Some of the more complicated manipulations pose a briefly satisfying technical challenge, but in the end, data manipulation is boring.

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This “Linux Product Insider” features IronKey Secure Flash Drives, Jedox’s Palo spreadsheet server, Tony Mullen’s new Blender book, Hyperic’s CloudStatus, Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Fashioning Technology and Joel Spolsky’s More Joel on Sofware.

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The Linux Journal recently published an article I wrote on Jean-Pierre Lemoine’s AVSynthesis, a program designed for artists working with the computer as a medium for the synthesis of image and sound. I’m fascinated by that program, so I decided to research the existence of similar software. This article presents the current findings from that research.

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The depth of Microsoft loathing among our clan is perhaps only second to our penguin loving. This loathing makes sense, given that Linux and open-source people are so fiercely merit driven, and great products have failed to end Microsoft’s hegemony. But times they are a changin’, for a post-Gates, post-Microsoft age has already begun.

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Google Tech Talks brings us this presentation describing the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change.

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Does a system with dual Quad Core processors, 128GB of RAM,
and a Tera-Byte RAID array seem pretty tame to you?
Does writing a program with a dozen threads seem about
as complex as an abacus to you?
Does a database with a million records seem like something
you’d put on a USB memory stick?
Do you know who John Backus was?
Are you cleared for ridiculous by the US Government?

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If you don’t get the title,
you’re probably too young to get the rest of this.
If you don’t know who John Backus was
or what his contribution to computer science was
then you’re also, probably, too young.

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This is the second in a two-part introduction to Gnome-Inform7 (and by extension, the Inform 7 language). I’m not going to spend much time re-capping what we covered last time, so if you haven’t read part one, please do so now.

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