Flying through a bookstore
A chance brought me into a chain bookstore in the middle of nowhere, so I took an opportunity to browse.
Greg’s “” is interesting, because it exposes the tribal knowledge. Probably needs a bit more git these days. $35 (there’s also a free PDF).
” is fascinating. I cannot help thinking that someone is trying a technical solution to a social problem. We all know how a certain reputable kernel developer replugged a major subsystem from one API to another in order to bypass a clueless maintainer. I had my doubts, but it was a great success, despite the cost of userland-visible changes (I’m actually disadvantaged by this, because I have a small fixed-function box where the API the new code needs was completely deconfigured… Now I have to carry 220KB of extra stuff.). WiMAX attempts the same on a much bigger scale: its providers and users have a chance to bypass the exploitive, rent-seeking, carteilized cellular market. The audacity of the plot is breath-taking.
: Got this, mostly because I remember that it was hard to find information about my Series 2 TiVo. Everything falls off the net pretty quickly these days.