Articles on AI governance, cybersecurity and systems architecture.
Between 2000 and 2001 the rights to Python changed hands three times. The founding of the Python Software Foundation closes a season of fragmented licences and shows why a project's governance weighs as much as its code.
Read moreIn February 2001 Apache serves nearly 60% of the sites Netcraft found. How the 1.3 prefork works, what the Multi-Processing Modules in the 2.0 development tree change, and why the licence and the governance weigh as much as the code.
Read moreThe network services a small office LAN needs already exist as mature open-source projects. The hard part is making them coexist on one administrable machine.
Read moreDescribe the tables once, in a metadata file, and generate the DDL, queries and forms from there: what holds and what stays manual.
Read moreThe new Zend Engine separates parsing from execution: what actually changes in server-side work, and what it leaves uncovered.
Read moreThe 2.2 kernel keeps everything in kernel space yet loads and unloads code while the machine is running — a middle way relative to the 1992 microkernel argument.
Read moreIn amateur packet radio the AX.25 link layer carries no routing at all: incompatible network protocols live on top of it. Technical notes on how a Linux node terminates and translates between them on a single machine.
Read moreFree software is defined by the permissions it grants over source code, not by its price. What the four freedoms guarantee and why copyleft makes them inherited.
Read moreWhat actually changes when a small company builds its infrastructure on open-source software: licences, copyleft, supplier dependence.
Read moreBringing amateur packet radio onto Linux means moving the AX.25 and NET/ROM stack into a kernel whose code you can read and fix. An account of the work done at the ARI section in Pisa: patches to the kernel, libraries and tools, the IP-over-radio bridge on the 44/8 network and an IP-IP tunnel to Tampa.
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