to watch: quagga, open source networking software internet systems consortium Open LSR: software and hardware.

and if indeed google is shaping the future of networking, as they build their own network anyhow, but the more important news here maybe is: they support OpenFlow.

is their a competition between stanford's open flow group, erisscon's OPenFlowMPLS, larry robert's "OpenFlow company anagran and others?

time to compare these different new protocol ideas and ongoing tests ...

if you search for an audio tool, take a look at reaper.fm. programmable.

More than anything else, the greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive relevance ......As the intensity of research in a particular area increases, so does the impulse to keep its results secret." |via dr dobb's

the full quote:

More than anything else, the greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive rele- vance. Evidence for the worldwide fascination with computers is everywhere, ftom the articles on the financial, and even the front pages of the newspapers, to the difficulties that even the most prestigious universities experience in finding and keeping faculty in cornputer science. The best professors, instead of teaching bright students, join start-up companies, and often discover that their brightest students have preceded them. Computer science is in the limelight, especially those aspects, such as systems, languages, and machine architecture, that may have immediate commercial applications. The attention is flattering, but it can work to the detriment of good research.

As the intensity of research in a particular area increases, so does the impulse to keep its results secret. | ritchie's turing award lecture: reflecting on software research, cacm, vol27, 8. august 1984