Monthly Archives: July 2005

Dvorak and Creative Commons

Posted on 2005-07-22 by Dan Siemon

I was going to write something about Dvorak’s article attacking the Creative Commons. Dvorak clearly has no clue what he is talking about. Fortunately, the people at Groklaw have already written a response that says everything I would have said.

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Coping with human error in the router world

Posted on 2005-07-21 by Dan Siemon

The November 2004 issue of ACM Queue contains an article entitled Coping with Human Error in IT Systems by Aaron B. Brown of IBM Research. This article got me thinking about how modern routers cope with human errors. One of … Continue reading →

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Alan Kay quote

Posted on 2005-07-16 by Dan Siemon

If you look at software today, through the lens of the history of engineering, it’s certainly engineering of a sort – but it’s the kind of engineering that people without the concept of the arch did. Most software today is … Continue reading →

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x86_64 FC4 and Open Office

Posted on 2005-07-09 by Dan Siemon

While attempting to compile some software on my x86_64 FC4 system I ran into a strange problem. For some reason the compile was trying to link against an i386 library. My first thought was why are there i386 libraries on … Continue reading →

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Terror and Liberalism

Posted on 2005-07-09 by Dan Siemon

I just finished reading Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman. The primary thesis of this book is that the current wave of Islamist (Berman is careful to distinguish between Islamist and Islamism) extremism and terrorism is a continuation of the … Continue reading →

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