Daily Archives: 3/22/2005

itsyBSD

Well, I’ve decided on a name for my tiny FreeBSD LiveCD project: itsyBSD, pronouced “itsybitsy”. 🙂 I haven’t got any files to download yet, but if you click the link you’ll end up at a wiki which will hold my documentation for the project. Hopefully in the next week I’ll have an iso you can download.

Is Software Engineering an Oxymoron?

SD Times – Is Software Engineering an Oxymoron?

The problem, then, is that programming has changed from the study and implementation of algorithms to the study and creation of complex documents.

I just thought it was a nice quote.

I agree only in part with Holub’s article though. He thinks that computer science is turning into a liberal art, and that it’s problematic that the curricula of universities doesn’t change to reflect that change. I think its also problematic that mathematics and analysis are being weaned out of computer science. Computer science needs mathematics and analysis more than ever.

Brainwagon Radio: Scrappy, Live CDs and Misc…

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