posted by steve | Category: Random Rants | 1 Comment »

I was quite surprised this evening to see an interview in Free Software Magazine with Fuat Kircaali, the publisher of LinuxWorld Magazine. I’ve updated this post, based on my resignation: I’ve resigned from LinuxWorld.

posted by steve | Category: Current Projects | 23 Comments »

[Editor's Note 3, 11:49am central: As some people have now pointed out, it could be that people were wget'ing the site for other reasons. However, that's not how it looked to me. All the requests that I saw were from the same IP and were all for the root / URL. Unfortunately, I don't have all of the information. I agree that it would be nice to have more. I have what I have and [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Current Projects | 17 Comments »

It is with some sadness that I’ve had to resign from LinuxWorld Magazine. Over the past nearly two years I’ve worked with a group of people with whom I’ve developed a great rapport and friendship. We were unpaid editors but we devoted a lot of time and energy to it nonetheless. It was a great experience for me and I look forward to other opportunities as they arise. I may edit this post in the [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Microsoft & Closed Source

A headline around the Internets today read “Firefox Growth Slowing”. Here’s a link to one of the articles. This headline got me thinking about another product with slow, actually almost no growth, namely Microsoft’s IIS web server. The IIS web server enjoys only about a 20% market share according to Netcraft’s Web Server Survey. This share is hardly increasing at all, and in fact has decreased in previous months. To be fair, Apache’s web server, [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

Various people have been reporting a DoS against Sys-Con, the publisher of LinuxWorld, possibly due to something that happened this week. It does in fact appear that there was and is an ongoing DoS against Sys-Con sites. Of course, the fact that there is a DoS doesn’t prove a correlation between the events of this week and the DoS. There certainly is no evidence that the OSS community is behind it. It could very well [...Read more...]