Hack the Planet in Exile
This is a temporary refuge until I can rebuild Hack the Planet with alien technology.
—Wes Felter
The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
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2012-05-24
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David Lowery: Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?
“I mean would you loan anyone money to make an album these days? I wouldn’t. I don’t even know if I would loan myself money to make an album in this day and age. … It seems the Bad Old Major Record Labels ‘accidentally’ shared too much revenue and capital through their system of advances. Also the labels ‘accidentally’ assumed most of the risk.” We may be reading the same thing about books in ten years. The Bad Old Publishers provide nothing of value to writers… oh, except advances.
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Yes, I am talking about a real-world JavaScript nation, whose banner shall unite web 2.0 ninjas, wizards and pirates (not the rockstars, though, those use Ruby) from all over the world.
— Camillo.js
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2012-05-23
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Building Windows 8: Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before
This seems like a huge improvement, although mostly obvious. Maybe in Win10 they’ll move BIOS setup to an in-band app.
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2012-05-21
Level 3: An IP Engineer and Consumer View of Xfinity Traffic Prioritization
Basically the same as Berg’s analysis. Does anything that uses public IP addresses count as part of the Internet?
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I’m looking at grub2. It’s a boot loader. It is 1000 files. All of plan 9 — kernel, libraries, window system, editors, everything — is 4300 files.
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2012-05-19
(Source: daringfireball.net)
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2012-05-17
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Comcast: The Facts about Xfinity TV and Xbox 360: Comcast is Not Prioritizing
In some sense this is right: because they’re effectively giving you extra bandwidth and using that for Xfinity, your Internet traffic is not slowed down.
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2012-05-15
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2012-05-14
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2012-05-12
EFTM: Iconic B&O BeoSound 9000 discontinued
A true end of an era.
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Sworcery A/V Jam
amirite?
