ASTLinux 0.2.4 is out. Linux distribution configured for firewall, router etc along with Asterix. Can be booted from a 32M CF card, or USB key.
Archive for March, 2005
Jon Arnold has a new blog, courtesy of Pulver Innovations. Congratulations Jon! No doubt there will be lots of insightful commentary.
Yucatan Travelogue
Built a page for the entire Yucatan Travelogue. Now you can read it in order.
The FCC says that Bell South doesn’t have to provide naked DSL. Here’s Kevin Werbach’s reaction. He’s right — it is perverse that the monopoly owner of the last mile can compel the tied purchase of two distinct services. This is the same as Kodak demanding that Kodak films be processed only by Kodak labs, for instance. In any other business, this kind of decision would be challenged on anti-competitive grounds.
Cringely has an interesting piece on how the telcos plan to compete with the broadband parasites. The assertion is that they will not damage competing services packet flows deliberately (which has been the speculation), but rather that they will let the Internet’s existing "best efforts" regime do it for them. It’s a strategy that will fail in the long term. You can get excellent sound quality with intelligent end point software — Global IP Sound and Diamondware have both proven this.
