Have all big government internet projects

According to a UK ePetition by Harel Malka, we should:

Have all big government internet projects pass the approval of a technical panel made of professionals from the tech statup[sic] sector.

This is an interesting idea – and one that I could buy into (under the right conditions…)
I’m a government employee that manages systems and projects that run into the millions of dollars. Would advice from the private sector help me?

Maybe.

Gig.U, Gigabit to the Home

Gig.U is on track. That’s cool.

I’ll be very interested if Gigabit Ethernet to the home makes a difference to the ordinary home user. I’ll go on record and say that I don’t think it will. The Gig.U experiment might come up with novel and interesting uses that can’t be met by a 10 or 100Mbps home connection, but if the interesting & novel new uses for high bandwidth to the home show up, they will not radically change ordinary home users lives.

A new means of releasing software

From a recent conversation with a colleague, I learned that worms have been around a lot longer than I imagined:

.                      JOHN WALKER   JANUARY 1975
.
.
. THIS PROGRAM IS A TOTALLY NEW WAY OF DISTRIBUTING VERSIONS OF
. SOFTWARE THROUGHOUT THE 1100 SERIES USER COMMUNITY.  PREVIOUS
. METHODS REQUIRED THE DELIBERATE AND PLANNED INTERCHANGE OF
. TAPES, CARD DECKS, OR OTHER TRANSFER MEDIA.  THE ADVENT OF
. 'PERVADE' PERMITS SOFTWARE TO BE RELEASED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT
. IF SOMEONE CALLS YOU UP AND ASKS FOR A VERSION OF A PROCESSOR,
. VERY LIKELY YOU CAN TELL THEM THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE IT, MUCH
. TO THEIR OWN SURPRISE.

Self replicating software a decade before the Morris worm.

Cool.