Well, I was browsing around in /etc/init.d and I found this:
shriphani@psp-laptop:/etc/init.d$ ls -ltotal 368 \-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1386 Sep 13 2006 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1850 Jan 14 2006 acpid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5884 Feb 26 2007 alsa -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8710 Jan 12 2007 alsa-utils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4886 Jun 18 01:42 apache2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 969 Jan 3 2006 atd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4318 Mar 17 2007 avahi-daemon -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1109 Oct 27 2005 binfmt-support -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2803 Oct 18 2006 bittorrent -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5089 Sep 20 2006 bootclean -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2146 Sep 13 2006 bootlogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1915 Sep 20 2006 bootmisc.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2930 Sep 14 2006 checkfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9548 Sep 23 2006 checkroot.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6110 Sep 5 2006 console-screen.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1693 Oct 21 18:35 cpufrequtils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1761 Oct 13 2006 cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1977 Feb 2 2007 cupsys -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2760 Dec 13 2006 dbus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1753 Oct 8 2006 dirmngr -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5984 Oct 23 2006 discover -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1196 Sep 3 2006 festival -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1833 Dec 15 2006 gdm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5823 Jul 31 02:09 glibc.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1360 Jan 14 2007 halt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1287 Sep 13 2006 hostname.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3886 Feb 21 2007 hwclock.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2518 Sep 15 2006 ifupdown -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1046 Sep 15 2006 ifupdown-clean -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5119 Sep 21 21:39 kdm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3484 Oct 16 2006 keymap.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 944 Sep 13 2006 killprocs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1375 May 25 2006 klogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 417 Aug 9 2006 libdevmapper1.02 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1060 Jan 29 2007 lisa -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 421 Mar 5 2007 lm-sensors -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1054 Sep 7 2006 makedev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1793 Nov 14 2006 module-init-tools -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 617 Jan 15 2006 mountall-bootclean.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1718 Sep 13 2006 mountall.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2206 Oct 3 2006 mountdevsubfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2394 Sep 25 2006 mountkernfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 615 Jan 15 2006 mountnfs-bootclean.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2299 Nov 26 2006 mountnfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3668 Nov 26 2006 mtab.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2550 Jan 6 2007 networking -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6644 May 16 2007 nfs-common -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2324 Feb 26 2007 openbsd-inetd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6499 Oct 22 2006 pcmcia -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2350 Nov 27 2006 pcmciautils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1525 Dec 22 2006 portmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 375 Mar 18 2007 pppd-dns -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 997 Sep 13 2006 procps.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8045 Nov 28 2006 rc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 798 Sep 28 2006 rc.local -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117 Dec 2 2005 rcS -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 655 Sep 22 2006 reboot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 994 Sep 13 2006 rmnologin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 31 17:09 rsync -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 695 Mar 7 2007 screen-cleanup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1376 Nov 28 2006 sendsigs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 585 Sep 13 2006 single -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4187 Sep 13 2006 skeleton -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 520 Sep 13 2006 stop-bootlogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 730 Oct 2 2006 stop-bootlogd-single -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541 Apr 7 2006 sudo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2037 May 25 2006 sysklogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8178 Dec 19 2006 udev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1252 Mar 28 2006 udev-mtab -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3175 Nov 25 2006 umountfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2128 Nov 26 2006 umountnfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1122 Sep 30 2006 umountroot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1815 Sep 13 2006 urandom -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1626 Oct 5 2006 wpa-ifupdown -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1805 Feb 13 2007 x11-common shriphani@psp-laptop:/etc/init.d$
My current OS was installed on my laptop this November and here one can see that the timestamps date as back as 2005. This means that those files haven’t been tinkered with since 2005 by the developers ?
I was talking to Mr. Saifi Khan of TWINCLING some time back. He told me about a discussion he was engaged in with some geeks from Yahoo! (TM). Seemingly Web 3.0 would be released. I shook my head. Web 2.0 was such a pretentious name for trash. Mr. Saifi then told me that Web3.0 was UI + Wisdom. Then my cellphone’s (well, my mother’s) battery got dischared. I then began formulating ideas based on what I was told on the phone.
I was browsing MIT’s EECS Research Page (I am inclined towards CSE now, but who knows) and I saw something called Semantic Web by Prof. Tim Berners Lee. Semantic Web has the wisdom to operate on data. Here is what he has to say about semantic web:
using the WWW infrastructure to create a global, decentralized, weblike mesh of machine-processable knowledge. Please see my general page for information about other subjects.
The Semantic Web can be described as doing for Knowledge Representation what the Hypertext WWW did for hypertext. It part of the completion of the original dream of the Web. URIs and HTTP create a universal addressable space of information, allowing things to be given globally unique and dereferencable names. By relaxing traditional constraints of global consistency, we allow the system to grow to a global scale, maintaining local consistency.
I might mention that Prof. Tim Berners Lee’s “work” called Design Issues seems to be a good source for information on the dynamics of the World Wide Web. I actually want to work on this (if I do get the chance to that is). I am really busy nowadays. I will write again later.
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