Make it work. Then make it great. Then take it live. Then change the world. Then make your money. Then make it free. Then start again.

] The forthcoming Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) will
] include a remarkable new feature that allows customers to
] run Linux applications unchanged on the Solaris OS.
]
] By enabling this functionality, code-named Project Janus,
] administrators can create an environment for running a
] range of Linux applications at near-native speeds.

This is freaking pointless. Yes it will increase the number of applications that will run on Solaris, making Solaris more appealing. But this apps don't use the full capabilities of Solaris (especially the SPARC architecture), and don't even run at full speed. This is like driving a Ferrari forever stuck in 1st gear!

What Sun needs to do is making developing applications for Solaris/Sparc very easy to do. I'm talking about a few #defines and #includes and suddenly my code written for pthreads can use Solaris' threading imeplementation. Throttling your OS down so it can run Linux apps natively yet poorly is stupid, when someone can run those same apps on a very inexpensive OS and get better performance.

Solaris 10 with run Linux Apps natively: Idoits in Motion

I was just the co-host of Binary Revolution Radio, a weekly hacking show done out of FL, hosted by StankDawg (www.binrev.com).

Its a cool show where we talked about lots of topics, including Stripe Snoop.

The show notes should be posted here (http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.html) soon.

Acidus on Binrev radio [MP3]

] Ever have a really cool project or program you wanted to share
] with the world? Concerned and worried about how to do it
] right? Or have you already released a project only to
] find no one cared? Ever wonder what went wrong?

A nice article I wrote for MWA #2, about running and marketing a successful Open Source Porject, and the pitfalls that cause most projects to fail.

Running a Successful Open Source Project

] McBride: To quote Mark Twain, the rumors of our death are
] greatly exaggerated. I don't believe Unix is dying, I
] think it's actually going to grow.

He then added: "Hello, my name is Darl McBride, and I live in a cave."

Linux is/has marginalized the Operating System, just as cheap x86 boxes from Intel and AMD marginalized the hardware side of things. Aside from a few areas (threading, job scheduling, memory management, distributed processing), improvments to the Operating System don't matter. Thats why the My OS is better than your OS is completely pointless. Its what the OS lets you do that matters. Its a platform to run applications on. The only Unix giving Linux a run for its money, in terms of core OS functions, is Solaris, with its amazing threading (and most of that is due to the SPARC architure).

But a marginalized OS is a good thing. Tivo could do what it did because it didn't have to spend time and write an OS. The same way cheap x86 platforms have made it easier for 80's software companies to exists because they didn't have to worry about supporting all kinds of crazy chips (x86, z80, 68xxx, etc). Marginalization isn't a lack of choices. Its a gift that allows companies to focus on whats important: making cool products.

So why does this matter? Because the battle for the desktop will be based on applications. Why else do you thnk our Monkey boy danced and screamed "Developers" over and over again?

You don't hear Microsoft talking about their paging system, or scheduler. Instead, WOW! they have virtual desktops! The have pretty wizards and 32 bit icons, they have a cool new file system. None of these things are OS related things! Microsoft is simply packaging alot of applications with the OS, and marketing those as why you should upgrade to XP/2003 from 2K. Microsoft is starting to get hosed, because now their competitors (ie, OSS projects, companies), can't be bought out or sued out of existance or drowned with a lack of an API. There are just to many of them.

This is why Microsoft is losing the server market. Companies don't see a need to pay lots of monkey for a OS with a bunch of flashy bullshit, when they can get an OS that does the same thing for much much less. Because the OS no longer matters, and Microsoft lost its monopoly on software for server tasks.

The Desktop is next.

OSes ain't what they used to be.

] But CrimeThinc continued to ask attendees to deface the
] Republican National Committee Web sites, to launch denial
] of service attacks against their servers, to harass
] delegates in the street, to prevent buses carrying
] delegates from running, and so on. "By any means
] necessary," he said.

Add another name to the list of "Hacktivist" dumbasses.

This is not hacking, this isn't protesting, this is anarchy, and these jackasses deserve the brutality they get.

And for godsake stop using the term "Hacktivism!" First of all it sounds retarded, it poisons the public's prespective of hackers, and generally confuses everyone.

Yeah CrimeThinc and Shapeshifter, you really "fight the man" when you stick a banana in the tailpipe of a bus. Whoopity-fucking-do.

These are those people you just wish would get the hell off your side.

And they gave this guy a speaking role? At Defon? WTF?

CrimeThinc @ Defcon: Cause chaos at the RNC

As President, I will wage this war with the lessons I learned in war. Before you go to battle, you have to be able to look a parent in the eye and truthfully say: "I tried everything possible to avoid sending your son or daughter into harm's way. But we had no choice. We had to protect the American people, fundamental American values from a threat that was real and imminent." So lesson one, this is the only justification for going to war.

And tonight, we have an important message for those who question the patriotism of Americans who offer a better direction for our country. Before wrapping themselves in the flag and shutting their eyes and ears to the truth, they should remember what America is really all about. They should remember the great idea of freedom for which so many have given their lives. Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

A couple quotes from Kerry's speech that ring true.

Reason for war

] ALAPAHA, Georgia (AP) -- Around these parts, they are
] calling it Hogzilla: a 12-foot-long wild hog recently
] killed on a plantation and now quickly becoming a part of
] local legend.

Mmmmmm Pork chops.... [drools]

Hogzilla, the legend grows

Ballsy. Stupid, but Ballsy.

Moore invites Bush to Crawford, TX 9/11 screening

] -The main thing is, no one is trying to really sell Kerry.
] Everyone is just trying to say, without bringing up Bush's
] name, that he can't possibly F*** things up more than the
] current regime.

I agree, and thats a mistake.

Think of it this way. You are in a car racing down hill with 2 other people, 1 is driving and the other in the passenger seat, with you in the back. You are approaching a bridge that is halfway raised, and you have no brakes. The Driver says "Hmmm, I'll punch the gas to try and get us over the rising bridge."

At this point, you are worried. The driver sounds a little crazy sometimes, and not too good of a public speaker. Even though you don't like his plan at all, you don't feel you have any alternatives that have any less chance of killing you.

So the passenger doesn't have to convince you the driver is stupid and you might die, what he has to do is convince you that his idea (open the door, tuck and roll) is better for your survivial.

... ... ok then. My point is Kerry doesn't needs to harp on Bush's total failures in Iraq, education, etc, because most moderates and liberal conservatives already know that. What he needs to present himself in a way that the moderates and liberal conservatives feel comfortable with jumping out of Bush's wild car for.

RE: DNC analysis