Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
One Market Under God, by Thomas Frank
Globalization and Its Discontents
Hardcore anti-globalization activists likely greeted the 2002 publication of Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents with the sense that a justification of their protests from a mainstream, authoritative source had arrived. After all, Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist [...]
I’ve made some final alterations to the Internet gateway box on my home network: I’ve added Squid for transparent proxying and Web content caching, and DansGuardian for content filtering.
“Transparent proxying” means that clients on the LAN can’t bypass the proxy–all requests made through port 80 will be redirected to port 8080, which is the port [...]
I’m running DNS locally on my home network now. The advantages of this are twofold: 1) local caching of domain names speeds up Web browsing on my network, and 2) I can now refer to the computers on my network by the names I’ve given the machines rather than by IP address.
Two packages are [...]
Veterans of the mid-90s era of IT hype will recall Oracle’s enthusiasm about the prospect of “thin clients” replacing desktop systems, as well as Sun Microsystems’ hyperbolic mantra “The Network is the Computer.” Microsoft, of course, having built its very empire on a foundation of bloated, resource-intensive software (necessitating ever more powerful hardware and [...]
I recently created up a home network/cable modem sharing setup using an old Pentium 100MHz box with 64 MB of RAM as a Linux-based Internet gateway providing the following network services:
IP forwarding (routing)
IP masquerading (for permitting all machines on the LAN to share the cable modem’s connection to the internet by letting them use the [...]
I’m in the midst of laying the groundwork for a small offshore IT outsourcing operation and it’s become evident that it will face some unique challenges. The most obvious of them can be seen in the mainstream press attention that this business has been getting lately, much of which focusses on the backlash by [...]
My article on Via Libre, a free software organization in Argentina, was just published on salon.com. If you’re not a subscriber, just click on the “Free Day Pass” option. You’ll have to watch an ad for the Mazda 6, but that’s a pretty bitchin’ car, so hopefully you won’t mind.
On December 8th, 2002, I set out for home for the first time in eleven months. I had spent the year in Argentina, where I had hoped to achieve fluency in Spanish, and experience a culture that has fascinated me ever since I first read Jorge Luis Borges’ tale “The Library of Babel” (I [...]