Archive For February 7th, 2003
Unix.se – Interview – Dennis Ritchie Edit on 2012-04-11 That link is long dead and even archive.org had problems as the “old” url the article redirected to disappeared too! I eventually found it here but I’ll reproduce it here too: We’ve interviewed Dennis Ritchie, who really doesn’t need an introduction (hint: “C” and “Unix”). This [...]
Karlin takes on the Irish Government on their proposed data retention laws. … and note that there’s no mention of the far more crucial 2002 amended Directive, voted in last May by a spineless and ill-informed EU Parliament, which allows for up to SEVEN YEARS data retention.
The Art of Unix Programming – whatever you think about ESR, he is a prolific writer, and even occasionally comes up with some gems. From a quick scan of the index of this online book it looks like a good read. Must dive in.
Musings: News aggregator for Linux? – It looks bad alright. Some of the most promising rss readers are just plain broken or incomplete. argh!
