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By Mike Gunderloy
Friday, June 06, 2003
So, after a fun day of router issues (the main issue being that there was no
router on the other end of the circuit most of the day), yesterday was my day
for telecom issues. I now know much more than I ever expected about the Layer 1
signalling protocol used by DDS to carry a frame relay circuit. It's fascinating
stuff, but I would rather be academically fascinated by it instead of watching
my net connections bounce up and down like a game of Whack-a-Mole. Oh well,
there's still time to surf between outages.
- I know I keep circling around this SCO story, but it just keeps getting
wackier. Now SCO says it's
found a contract amendment giving it copyright ownership, even though
Novell can't find their copy of the contract. Presumably the contract was at
the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign
on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'" Meanwhile, someone from Yankee
Group actually signed SCO's NDA to look at the allegedly-infringing code,
and says she was shown sections where
both the code and the comments were the same from Unix System V to Linux.
If they didn't both copy from prior art, that's pretty damning. Though as I've
said before I don't expect SCO's claims to affect the long-term prospects of
Linux, even if they prove to be true.
- Reuters
reports, somewhat breathlessly, that "Wired magazine is planning to publish
the underlying code for the Slammer worm that slowed Internet traffic to a
crawl in January, raising questions over whether such articles inspire future
hackers or educate potential victims." Gimme a break here. Future hackers
probably aren't wasting their money subscribing to Wired, and the entire source
code has been on the Web since the day the worm hit. Move along, nothing
to see here.
- Server
clinic: Emulate legacy operating systems on Linux - A strategy for dumping
boxes that run CP/M, VMS, DOS, or whatever, while still maintaining those last
few legacy operations.
- CVS SCC Proxy -
Tool for using CVS from the Visual Studio .NET IDE. There is precious
little information about the vendor on their site, though, and they do not
appear very professional based on their writing. This may just be a language
problem, but I'd proceed with caution. (via Marc LaFleur)
- Dave Thomas muses about using CVS for
everything to give him location independence. Interesting
notion.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.
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