After the recent spat of Linux is the Devil articles it is shocking to see something that gets it right. Links Top Linux Myths Dispelled - Datamation Shared with: Public
Ugly codes helps us appreciate how good code can be. Links Paris Review – The Beauty of Code, Vikram Chandra Shared with: Public +1’d by: Wing Wong
Informative without requiring registration. :) Links MMD-0025-2014 - ITW Infection of ELF .IptabLex & .IptabLes China #DDoS bots malware Shared with: Public
When you need to save the world, Perl is there. Links xkcd: Regular Expressions Shared with: Public +1’d by: Jerry Landry
Has Microsoft decided it was time to run a bunch of anti-Linux articles or something? I work and play on Linux every day. I haven’t booted into Windows in at least a year. I do also use MacOS, but Linux is my primary desktop. Links Linux Has Run Out of Time Shared with: Public +1’d by: Caskey Dickson Comments Christopher Hicks - 2014-08-28T04:02:21Z Oh, I forgot to mention the “killer app”: it just works. Uptimes of months are normal. ...
The author of this article likes to poke at the glitches in the Linux desktop. None of that sounds any worse than Windows. With a Linux desktop I don’t have to fear it slowing to a crawl under the load of malware you accumulate simply by installing “free” software or browsing the “free” Internet. With a Linux desktop I’m confidant that 99% of the drivers I need are already included and require no downloads or installs or extra work for me. If I want to install Windows 7 on a Windows 8 laptop how many hours will it take to get all of the drivers downloaded and installed? How many reboots will it take? How many calls to support or the help desk will it take? Does Matt’s straw man feel the brisk breeze blowing him down the way? The reliability and flexibility of the Linux desktop are unequaled. Even when canonical goes in some lame direction, the community forks and good things keep happening. How did the community alternatives to Windows 7 fare? Oh, they’re impossible because they don’t accept the value of openness or competition? I know I can keep running a Linux desktop forever and I can pay somebody to write patches if I desire. Someday Windows will follow OS/2, geos, and AmigaOS to the dust bins of history. No corporation can do that to Linux. ...
Everybody has an awesome invention buried inside waiting to get out. Links How a Young Girl Developed an Innovative Chemotherapy Device | Qmed Shared with: Public
Why can’t we just ban patents? Links Patents that kill Shared with: Public +1’d by: Caskey Dickson
Is crisis price gouging actually good for you? Links Toledo can’t drink its water. There’s an economics lesson there. Shared with: Public
We have another chance to validate the GPL in court. While the author reiterates and dismisses the analogy of the GPL to a virus, I want to build on it. Imagine for a minute that the current case succeeds in confirming the gist of the GPL in that you must release your code if you build on top of GPL technologies. That’s a step up from the settlement in FSF vs. Cisco. This solid legal ground inspires an intrepid geek in the Dakotas to reverse engineer Microsoft C++ libraries to discover serious GPL violations. This leads to every major software vendor being sued and forced to release their source code under the GPL. ...