World: r3wp

It supports a whole platform? Cool. I thought it only supported part 
of a single platform.

Linux's arch/ has 23 subdirectories.

Minix also doesn't have anything beyond the kernel and drivers. As 
with Linux, you have to put a userland, X11, toolkits and a desktop 
environment on top of it

Only then are you ready to add the half a gigabyte of OpenOffice 
:-)

Heh :)

But you'll be able to gloat about running your gigabyte on top of 
only 6000 lines ;-)

Linux and Minix tend to run the same amount of code, when you include 
drivers. Minix just runs a lot of that code in user space instead 
of kernel space.

Linux doesn't run all 13mil lines of code on one installation. When 
you just include the drivers that it is actually using then the code 
count gets a lot smaller.

I think, it's true that "less is more".

Less is more, because less code is more managable. On the upside, 
Git may never have seen the light of day, if Linux was a nice and 
small kernel.

Rebol Tutorial guy posted interesting link to programming languages 
future panel. He mentioned Crockford (JSON) mentioned REBOL there. 
What is really nice is the second guy from right, author of pleny 
JAVA libraries, describes that the main problem is rishing complexity. 
He says, that if you add functionality, it will only add-up, but 
never shrink. And also - that in future there might be a winner, 
who does it all, not like nowadays, where for web apps you need 3-4 
technologies. I think his description fits REBOL ...


http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Languages

Git is made in the image of Linux. It has the very same problems

Kaj, describe, please? I'm making a report on Git and would like 
more viewpoints.

(In "Source Control", please :)

I thought that talk was quite amusing.

Eric Meyer of Microsoft was quoted as saying that Javascript is the 
new virtual machine of the web, and he wants as Crockford says "defects 
into introduced into Javascript to make porting of C# to JS easier" 
which they are strongly resisting.

Right. Enough defects in JS already :)

When stadards are used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwsTObuwuvc

and people are willing to work very hard.

If only we could build software like this

Never mind the noise of construction at four o'clock in the morning.

lego

Not sure if it's new, but I stumbled onto the Chrome Web Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

It was opened yesterday

I've been preparing to publish Try REBOL in it

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/4436338/Google-unwraps-Chrome-PCs-too-late-for-holidays

the Chrome store was opened to service the now late Chrome OS PCs

For techno-freaks to check-out :-) http://www.osnews.com/story/24115/Verve_A_Type_Safe_Operating_System

I'm half-way through the video interview. They use really interesting 
techniques. I want to look at that source, barring license restrictions.

The news was posted here for you, because I knew that you would be 
the one wanting to see it :-)

Yeah, I caught it yesterday :)

The video interview is 74 mins though, and I haven't had 74 uninterrupted 
mins of a working brain since I started the video.

if you're running Windows, you could use something like MySpeed from 
Enounce - it can let you play back videos at faster than real-time. 
I find that for most content 2x is still very understandable.

Actually, the VLC player (free) lets you do that, but you have to 
provide it the link to the stream, whereas with MySpeed, embedded 
videos play at a speed controlled by a little tool tray UI

This cyber war of wikileaks vs the world is interesting ... maybe 
someone will finally fix the internet to prevent these DOS attacks.

And curious that Russia is now the last bastion of democracy with 
Putin asking .. why ina democracy Assange is imprisoned!

Same reason why a democracy elected Hitler, I guess

I don't think you can ever get rid of DoS attacks.

at best, servers can probably be made to tackle DoS attacks better, 
but I don't think we'll be rid of them either.

Routers run by ISPs could be made smarter

And curious that Russia is now the last bastion of democracy with 
Putin asking .. why ina democracy Assange is imprisoned!


Has former Soviet become a better democracy than the 'western' world? 
If so, it only took them 20 years.

Smarter probably means using more resources, which opens up more 
vectors for attack, not to mention the extra complexity requiring 
smarter humans to administer.

Scary if true - http://www.osnews.com/story/24136/_FBI_Added_Secret_Backdoors_to_OpenBSD_IPSEC_

I wonder if it would not have been seen during code reviews.

The code will be surely reviewed, but some ppl are speculating about 
so called GCC hacks, so that your code might be clean, but it is 
the compiler, which does some changes ...

It could also just be "Tricky logic" that would not seem out of place 
when reviewed.

the problem is also a simple buffer overflow at the right position 
could be what? unintentionally or not?

and btw the backdoor is found!

it's here:


http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9687/openbsdbackdoorlocated.jpg

That was a very funny pun on Blowfish :)

:)