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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: computers
A couple of my students have created a cool web page that lets you create beautiful lace patterns with a few clicks of a mouse. Well, pictures of lace patterns, but you can print out instructions for crocheting them....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
The Sydney Morning Herald reports The High Court Computer games enthusiasts are free to modify their Playstations to run cheap games bought overseas or online, following a landmark High Court ruling. The court found that "mod-chips"- used to override technology...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
According to my logs, about half of the visitors here are using Internet Explorer. There is a critical security hole in Internet Explorer that allows a web site you visit to take over your computer. Secunia has the details...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 8:55 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
Tech Central Station has an article by Robert McHenry criticising Wikipedia for inaccuracy. Yes, this Tech Central Station. McHenry found an error in the Wikipedia article on Alexander Hamilton. Of course, within hours of his pointing out the error,...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:19 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
Tom Giovenetti, the president of the Institute for Policy Innovation has responded to my story on the Microsoft-funded think tanks attack on open source. It's rather an odd response---he's angry that I dared to suggest that they were funded...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:23 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Think tanks vs Open Source The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute's attack on Linux is just the latest in a series of attacks on Open Source by think tanks: Date Think Tank Author/Title Extracts Sep 19, 2002 Competitive Enterprise Institute James...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 10:03 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute's attack on Linux gets taken apart in Lee Gomes' Wall Street Journal article: An institute study issued last month ups the ante in Linux criticism. It tries to prove that Linux's Linus Torvalds has...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:17 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
Ken Brown has a reply to the heavy criticism of his paper claiming that Linus Torvalds did not write Linux. ADTI introduce his reply like this: Experts from Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds agree: a. they are much smarter...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 12:25 AM • 5 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: computers
John Quiggin has a heuristic to help detect outfits like The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. ADTI claimed that Ken Brown's attack on Linux was based on "extensive interviews" with "Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum". We already saw Tanenbaum's...
Posted by Tim Lambert at 11:02 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: computers
Last year I wrote about how Tech Central Station was an astroturf operation, drafted by a public relations company to provide supposedly independent support for the PR companies clients. The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute (ADTI) is another astroturf operation....
Posted by Tim Lambert at 5:39 PM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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