on openflow and minimal software on routers
Some recent coverage of OpenFlow and software-defined networks (SDN) in general has gotten me thinking about the relationship between it…
on Apple in the post-device world
Apple has had their Icarus moment and it’s not losing Steve Jobs—though that may also prove problematic. Their Icarus moment…
cory doctorow on the war on general computation
I’m not really a huge Cory Doctorow fanboy, but he does tend to say things well. Here, he talks a lot less about copyright/copyleft (though still some) and a lot…Continue Reading →
on us cyber-defense
I was doing my usual reading through the news thing when I stumbled across an opinion piece by the ex…
on new communication paradigms
In the last 5 years communication has gone from being massively dominated by e-mail, phones, IM and snail mail to…
back-of-device interfaces
I was poking around the other day and I found this coverage of CHI 2009. A bunch of my friends are HCI researchers and were there, so I’ll need to…Continue Reading →
contest for better OpenWrt web interface
http://www.ubnt.com/challenge/ They’re offering $200,000 in prizes for new Web UIs for OpenWrt to run on their new router. That’s really…
classes of computers
A while back I was thinking about this whole cell phone, PDA, laptop, desktop thing with computers where we have…