December 2009
85 posts
Free Software Magazine: Google Chrome OS. Or, how... →
I don’t like the gratuitous faux diversity of the Linux ecosystem, but I don’t think that has anything to do with Chrome OS (since it isn’t really Linux anyway). There’s nothing stopping Google from releasing a Maemo-style GNOME-only OS… except the fact that they don’t want to.
The Register: Apple 'games' NAND flash market →
Awww.
Matt Aimonetti: Lots of rubies, now what? →
Related to the previous VM discussion.
November 2009
38 posts
Eivind Uggedal: EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace... →
Data Center Knowledge: Should Servers Come With... →
The Register: IBM shows off Power7/PERCS HPC... →
ISSCC 2010 Advance Program →
Includes the previously unannounced “Wire-Speed PowerPC Processor: 2.3GHz 45nm SOI with 16 Cores and 64 Threads” from IBM and “A 48-Core IA-32 Message-Passing Processor with DVFS in 45nm CMOS” from Intel which sounds like Larrabee.
The Register: Sun's Open Storage roadmap revealed →
Remarkably obvious mistakes here. 384 2TB SAS disks (they do exist) would be 33% more than 576TB. A “24Gbps SAS2 port” is not unusual at all since it has four lanes running at 6 Gbps each.
Micah Dubinko: How Xanadu Would Have Worked:... →
I say “would have” because when you look at the Udanax code a lot of stuff is just plain missing.
Mike Freedman has been writing a great... →
Richard Bennet stirred up a blogfight over at GigaOM over the intersection of paid peering and net neutrality. Putting aside the issue itself (which I already commented on), it worries me to see the few people who have first-hand knowledge about paid peering say “nothing to see here; let’s not discuss it”. If you want the government to step in and (clumsily) regulate you,...
Michael Mace: The mobile data apocalypse, and what... →
Aza Raskin: Identity in the Browser (Firefox) →
Am I to suppose that Mozilla has been holding up OpenID integration until they have an awesome UI for it?
Jeff Vogel: Make Your Game Easy. Then Make It... →
Please! I have been unable to finish several games (that I paid good money for, mind you) because some boss was just too hard for me to beat. It’s especially annoying when the game has a decent story and I feel like it’s not allowing me to see the ending. Assassin’s Creed II feels well balanced this way; the only parts I find difficult are optional.
chromatic: Walled Gardens, VM Sharecroppers, and... →
I’ve been thinking about this topic recently. Because Guido and Matz didn’t show any leadership about performance, the Python and Ruby ecosystems ended up with N competing, partially-complete, high-performance VMs rather than one working VM.
Ars Technica: When less is more: the basics of... →
So many buzzwords it’s hard to keep them all straight.
Digital Society: Two hypocrites in a garage →
I noticed some time ago that Skype phones seemed to be in their own little universe disjoint from the rest of the VoIP world, but I didn’t know Skype actually banned their phones from implementing SIP. The gall.
NewTeeVee: Get Ready for Flash Player 10.1 to... →
Nice to see some accurate reporting on this topic (and even links to the primary sources!) for a change.
Android's Dalvik VM is finally getting a JIT... →
I thought it was odd that they had V8 for JS but nothing for Java. (Aren’t native apps supposed to run faster than Web apps?)
Digital Society: What is true neutrality in the... →
There’s good network management and bad network management.
Google Chromium OS Design Documents. Completely in accordance with prophecy. I wonder why they created their own userspace integrity system rather than using IMA.
leoc: “No iTunes. Less space than a Litl. Lame.” Congratulations litl, you’re already the industry standard.
Don Marti: “I know I promised you a computer for your birthday, but after your brother got us...
The Register: Google App Engine and the myth of the open cloud. There are also practical problems like the total lack of Comet support.
Sandia Red Sky Time Lapse Installation Video. I’ve never seen a better ad for containers.
TechCrunch: The Google Phone May Be Data Only, VoIP Driven Device. I suspect that a VoIP call actually costs the carrier more than a voice call (and is lower...
Ask Dr. Peering: Paid Peering and Net Neutrality. This whole blog is really educational if you want to know how the Internet works.
Digital Society: FCC NPRM ban on Paid Peering harms new innovators. The NPRM is vague so I wouldn’t be so quick to jump to conclusions about what it means. The phrase “over this link” in the diagram indicates that prioritization over the last mile...
Chris Messina: The death of the URL.
Havoc Pennington: litl and computer frustration. There are some great ideas in here, although it looks quite expensive and as a geek the Web site seems a little too friendly, what with the hardware specs being completely buried.
The Register: SGI previews 2048-core UltraViolet Beckton ccNUMA server. Sounds like a monster. Between UV shipping in Q3 and the...
Dave Winer: Maybe it's time for personal servers? →
It’s time, but IMO they won’t be hardware and won’t be in your home.
Jeff Bone: Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger.
O’Reilly Radar: Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?
beep beep
LWN: Gerrit: Google-style code review meets git. I couldn’t find any screen shots but there is a live server. I’ve always been a fan of Hg, but the Git ecosystem is now enormous.
Google SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster Web. Who knew advertising could pay for all this stuff?
The Economist: User-friendliness and fascism.
Ars Technica: Pirates navigate around Windows 7 activation again. Thanks Ars, I didn’t really want to pay for 7 anyway.
Control Group: “It does seem an interesting dichotomy that a post which could be used as a ‘search term tips’ reference for people wanting to pirate Windows 7 is on the front page, but a post in the forums...
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Dan Gillmor: Toward a Slow-News Movement. The inflate-retract cycle drives me crazy, so I’m glad to see some backlash.
Nick Johnson: Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves.
Carl Malamud: Intellectual Ventures, Google, The Internet Archive, and Public.Resource.Org Working Together To Make US Patent Database More Available. Good news for those of us who...
Another World in JavaScript. I thought this would be an ideal candidate for a Flash or canvas port.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider. “Since its inception, the Large Hadron Collider has been plagued by construction delays, dead technicians, broken magnet supports, electrical faults, helium containment failures, vacuum leaks, birds with baguettes,...
give it a second, it's going to space
Wired: ACTA Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest.
The Register: Vint Cerf mods Android for interplanetary interwebs.
Android and Me: Has the T-Mobile HSPA 7.2 rollout begun? Yes! OK, now where’s the N900?
AnandTech: No, you can’t have a Radeon 5800. Not yours.
Michael Stonebraker: The “NoSQL” Discussion has Nothing to Do With SQL. “I fully expect very high speed, open-source SQL engines in the near future that provide automatic sharding. Moreover, they will continue to provide ACID transactions.” I’d think if this was possible we’d have at least seen the beginning of it already.
Jeff Darcy: Stonebraker and the CAP...
is that like a backchannel?
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers 2.1 Administration Guide. “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager runs on a Windows 2003 server. … The ActiveX component is automatically installed when the Administrator logs in for the first time.” I see your problem right there. Apparently RHEV isn’t oVirt as I thought but some Windows-loving stuff written by Qumranet. It...
Daniel Tenner: The questionable value of the real-time Web: Demand-side attention economics. Scoble and Arrington need it; you probably don’t. (For Web 2.0 startups, real time does separate those who are smart enough to implement Comet from those who aren’t.)
The Register: Red Hat releases RHEV hypervisor. If it works this looks pretty good for a 1.0 product. I can’t wait for...
Jeff Bonwick: ZFS Deduplication. I’m surprised they get usable performance from such an apparently naive approach. (Also, their “dedup” is so efficient it doesn’t even have an e.)
virtualization.info: VMware, Cisco and EMC to announce vBlock joint venture.
nim-nim; “Note that the main motivation for WOFF was to create a web font format incompatible with desktop...
GigaOM: Could SIP Really Save Skype? “Skype is as successful as it is because it has exponentially better operating economics than the rest of the VoIP industry — and JoltID’s Global Index P2P technology is the singular reason why.” Meanwhile the IETF P2PSIP working group has yet to produce one RFC after 2.5 years.
Mason Lee: RssCloud Atom Extension.
Brett Slatkin: Comparison...