Advogato: Personal info for wmf

wmf is currently certified at Master level.

Name: Wes Felter
Member since: 2000-07-01 21:08:00
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Notes:

I work at the IBM Austin Research Lab on various things vaguely related to power-aware system software. When I was there as an intern in summer 2000 I learned much about the Linux kernel and -EHUBRIS. I wish I had more time to work on free software, but life is like that.

You won't find many diary entries here, because I already have a weblog. I don't attempt to read every journal entry posted on Advogato looking for replies to my journal entries (which in fact seems like a ridiculous idea), so use more direct means if you want to make me aware of a reply.

Recent blog entries by wmf

Syndication: RSS 2.0

18 Apr 2003 »

Re the latest article:

I think the ideas of a single, globally-replicated Usenet and massive multi-server IRC networks are out of touch with today's Internet. Both Usenet and IRC could be massively simplified if there were a lot of independent servers hosting disjoint groups/channels, just like the Web. (This isn't my idea, but I don't remember where it came from.) Sure you have the occasional slashdottings and outages, but you avoid a lot of complexity and waste.

So what should be done about RSS? The existing Web proxy infrastructure should help, but maybe for some people it isn't helping enough. (Consider this: My RSS channel probably gets about 2x as many hits/day as all the other pages on my weblog combined. Granted, the RSS hits don't use much bandwidth thanks to ETags.) I'm tempted to suggest Astrolabe/NewsWire, but it looks even more complex than NNTP. UserLand defined a notification system for RSS, but it's probably useless for the 99.9999999% of the Internet that's now behind NATs.

I didn't post this as a comment on the article since it's mostly just uninformed ranting. :-)

29 Jun 2002 (updated 29 Jun 2002 at 19:37 UTC) »

I am not seeing any interface to rate diaries, but I am logged in. Update: Oh, silly me; it's in the last place I would look fir it.

10 Jan 2002 »

pkiforum is not a person, or at least doesn't claim to be. It's not even a cat. It seems weird.

17 Aug 2001 (updated 17 Aug 2001 at 04:15 UTC) »

Thanks for the cert, raph.

16 Aug 2001 »

I was surprised to read that advogato reads my site. Still no cert lovin', though.

4 older entries...

wmf certified others as follows:

wmf certified wmf as Apprentice
wmf certified josh as Journeyer
wmf certified cam as Apprentice
wmf certified emk as Journeyer
wmf certified AArthur as Apprentice
wmf certified splork as Journeyer
wmf certified Bram as Journeyer
wmf certified Zooko as Journeyer
wmf certified dwiner as Apprentice
wmf certified markm as Master
wmf certified dnm as Journeyer
wmf certified aaronsw as Apprentice
wmf certified whump as Journeyer
wmf certified Platypus as Journeyer
wmf certified stevej as Apprentice
wmf certified mpruett as Journeyer
wmf certified tav as Journeyer
wmf certified AGL as Journeyer
wmf certified ruaok as Journeyer
wmf certified edd as Journeyer
wmf certified icepick as Apprentice
wmf certified gwachob as Apprentice

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