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You better start speaking up and protecting your rights now. The RIAA is ruining the Internet

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Dennis Ritchie died on 10/12/2011. He was credited with writing the C Programming Language, and both the UNIX and Plan 9 Operating Systems. Here is his bio: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bigbio1st.html. On a personal note, I’ve always viewed both Ken and Dennis as Superheros. It’s sad to see him go. “Ritchie’s influence rivals Jobs’s; it’s just less visible,” […]

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A legend in computer science Steve jobs passed away late last week. A few people have commented on how quiet I was. I suppose I was just putting some of my thoughts together. I think Steve Jobs did a fantastic job of making technology easy. His company made simple devices that “just worked”. He will […]

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I picked up the Toshiba Thrive a few weeks ago. I must say that I’m thrilled to death with it. I like the android OS and everything “just works”. I’ve become a fan. Initially I was woried about having a portable device that I couldn’t write code on, but I found that when I’m commuting, […]

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A link to a series of papers written by Prof. Peter J. Denning Peter J. Denning PhD papers: read them in order

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Well, I’m just about done with my MS in Compute Science. I started out in 2006 and though I took a few semesters off, I’m finally finishing it up. I have one class left to take over the summer. I’ll document my progress here. So, what’s next? I thought about Ph.D programs for quite a […]

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I just added some new code at http://biffsocko.kodingen.com (one of my other websites). This is just an altered copy of the ssh command; it takes a -z ‘password’ command line switch now: http://biffsocko.kodingen.com/wordpress/wordpress/?p=44 ssh -z ‘password’ you@host.domain.com

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http://programming-motherfucker.com/ Zed A. Shaw, is a programmers programmer; One of the outspoken voices of the OpenSource Community.   I came across him when I red this gem about Ruby on Rails: http://zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html  .  You can check out his site at: http://zedshaw.com/