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January 07, 2004
SCO Shunned at OSBC
I heard an interesting story today. Seems that the organizers of the Open Source Business Conference had originally invited Darl McBride of SCO to speak in the interest of fairness, but then when the antics got going, uninvited Darl to avoid the circus that that would surely entail. That was a while back and all has been quite---until today.
This afternoon, SCO called up an OSBC organizer and offered a $40K sponsorship. That's $10K above the Platinum sponsorship which is going for $30K. SCO wants to speak in a bad way. Actually, I think more than a chance to speak, they want a press release that says they're going to speak at the Open Source Business Conference. In any event, OSBC turned them down and they won't get their wish.
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Your Personal Tivo
If you like TiVo, but really want more freedom to tinker than TiVo gives you, head on over to MythTV, a homebrew personal video recorder (PVR) project. I have a friend who has MythTV server (running on Gentoo Linux) in his attic with 1Tb of storage and diskless front end systems based on VIA EPIA-M motherboards. He can store almost a year of TV or 1000 movies and watch them anywhere in the house. After all, its just data.
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Letting DNS Loose
Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of DNS has written an article at CircleID called Letting DNS Loose about extending DNS to handle the same tasks ENUM -- mapping names to phone numbers. Of course, thats just the start, why not extend it to do RFID mapping and so on. Paul's point is that we don't really need to build a whole new infrastructure to do most of what needs doing and re-using the existing infrastructure isn't just cheaper, its proven. As Paul points out, the issue is political, not technical.