Apr 19, 2014 GMT
The events of the past couple of weeks with the bug in OpenSSL exposing many websites and other communications are indeed unfortunate. Not only has it caused a lot of extra work and expense for those who have Internet servers to have to update code and replace certificates, but it has caused many end users to spend time doing what they avoid doing, update their passwords. Forcing end users to update their passwords is both bad and good news, which I will discuss later.However, the OpenSSL bug has also generated an abundance of articles and TV reports about the validity of Open Source code and (once again) questions of whether or not Open Source is more secure or less secure, higher...Paw Prints: Writings of the maddog

Mar 19, 2014 GMT
If you are a university computer science or computer engineering student and you are looking for a way to make some extra money while getting some great work experience, read on!Google's Summer of Code (or SoC for short) is a program that aligns university student programmers with a Free and Open Source project and a mentor and allows the student to work on a real project and earn “real money” (5500 US dollars) while getting advice from a real mentor. This work, most people agree, is better than having a student working the same hours and flipping hamburgers to make money, and many of these projects would look very good on a graduating student's resume.Linaro is an association of...Mar 17, 2014 GMT
Dear President Rousseff,You may remember that I wrote to you last October and gently scolded you for not listening to me over the past eighteen years and moving your country to software and hardware freedom, helping to ensure the security and privacy that I know you want your citizens and government to enjoy.In that article I even invited you to have some of your people talk with me and I was willing to offer advice to you on this topic for gratis, but alas, no official came to talk with me about the issues.Since last October I have seen that you had one of your people start to design a secure email system, one that my government would find harder to break, and that you are thinking about...Jan 12, 2014 GMT
Recently the Affordable Care Act (ACA, otherwise known as “Obamacare”) has dominated the news of the United States. Whether you are for it or against it makes no difference to this blog post, but there are a lot of similarities between health insurance, car insurance and computer system warranties that make it interesting to compare them.In the United States a “warranty” is a legal promise that tells a consumer what they might expect if a particular product does not perform the way it is represented to work.New automobiles, for instance, may come with a warranty that tells the customer that certain parts will be replaced in a certain period of time, and whether it is just the cost...Oct 14, 2013 GMT
Dear President Rousseff,I understand that you are irritated with my country, the United States of America, because one of our agencies, the National Security Agency, has been tapping into your private communications, reading your email and otherwise spying on you and other Brazilian nationals.Please pardon me for saying this, but “I told you so”.Ever since 1996 I have been coming to Brazil, and talking about GNU/Linux and Free and Open Source Software in general. After the events of September 11, 2001 and the passage of the so-called “USA Patriot Act of 2001”, I started to feel this little chill in the back of my mind, where I knew such far-reaching, unchecked powers were not what...Sep 22, 2013 GMT
At LinuxCon in New Orleans Intel made a big splash about CircuitCO's new board, the “minnow”, declaring it the “first open hardware board based on x86”. This, of course, ignored the “Gizmo” board, which came out previously...Intel then compared the “minnow” against the Raspberry Pi (RPi) declaring that the RPi was not “open” because you could not go down to your corner store and purchase the components one at a time to solder (surface mount, anyone?) those components onto your (multi-layer) printed circuit board.With the great success of the RPi (which uses an ARM chip) I suppose Intel had to do something, just as Intel had to develop the Classmate PC with...Jul 24, 2013 GMT
It is not often that I point to a specific product, slap my forehead and make a snap buying decision. It is even less common for me to pay for something I know I will not get for a couple of months, but last night a friend of mine, Lucas Teske wrote to me and pointed me towards the Adapteva board.I had looked at this board when they had their kickstarter going, but as Lucas and I discussed it, and particularly in light of my work with both Linaro (on performance improvements) and Project Caua (on economic computing), I started to get more interested, then excited. By the end of the night I had purchased one of the Zynq 7000 units (there is a unit based on the Zynq-7010 and one on...Issue 269/2023
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