Telephony geeks will appreciate the full archive of telecom-digest up on the Web at http://telecom-digest.org.

Do you need to settle one of those barroom debates about Internet standards that you’re always having? Check out the nice library of RFCs maintained by Ohio State University.

To reach the pinnacle of geekdom, one must become a Unix hater, not because Unix confusing or hard to use, but because it’s technically inferior to other operating systems that came before it. I have not yet attained this level of consciousness. I probably never will.

The Hubble space telescope is finding “gravitational lenses” that were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1936. Amazing stuff.

There’s a new Perl magazine out on the ‘net … Perlmonth.

Steve Ballmer is spewing more crap about Microsoft releasing some of Windows as “open source” software. This is exactly what’s wrong with the term “open source” in the first place. Even if Microsoft lets people read the source code to their software, customers won’t be free to use it as they wish.

The Microserfs working on contract have won in court again in their ongoing quest to get real benefits from Microsoft. It’s probably a good thing for the industry that the courts are realizing the way that contractors are abused. Obviously, some people prefer to work on contract, but keeping someone who’d like to work for a company full time on contract for years is pretty unfair.

There’s very big news in the open source world today, as O’Reilly has launched Sourcexchange, a service which will allow companies to submit software projects for bidding by open source developers. The winning bidder will write the code, some independent group will “peer review” the code, and then the developers will be paid the amount of the bid. The catch is that the code has to be released under an open source license after the project is complete. This could be an incredibly interesting development in the computer industry. Andrew Leonard has the story over at Salon.

Here’s a page explaining how to make secure CVS connections using SSH.

I found a useful online manual for CVS tonight.