Cox Crow
Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Wednesday, January 23, 2002
I battled with Sun yesterday, and am tempted to re-read The UNIX Haters Handbook for the sheer joy of it.
4:12:04 PM #
categories: System Administration
There's an interesting feedback loop between weblogs.com and google. I'll have to think about this some more.
4:02:14 PM #
Is it a stretch to apply the DMCA to the Human Genome Project? This is the most complicated reverse-engineering project that I know of.
Teaching Robot Dogs New Tricks: "The controversy poses serious questions about the proper use of robots in homes and exposes a potentially stifling effect of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998."
The Silver Metal Lover also considers the proper use of robots in homes. So does Asimov. Case law is considering things long considered in fiction.
These people do basically what any competent system administrator has to do: document and fix undocumented legacy code. Sometimes code that the development group deployed that very morning.
2:28:40 PM #
categories: System Administration
Why, do I not comment publicly?
As the minister says, speak now or forever hold your peace.
Recruiting the new IT girls. BBC Jan 23 2002 10:16AM ET... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
11:36:07 AM #
It's exceedingly difficult to confirm quotations online. You would think that since a phrase was published, not uttered, there would be an authoritative source. Unfortunately, I don't have my paper copy of 1984 handy. This is almost as much fun as playing the Telephone Game.
How the Wayback Machine Works on Intellectual Property: "[W]e instruct them on how to use a robot exclusion and they're taken out of history." [emphasis mine]
Orwell: "Whoever controls the past controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past." [1]
