December 2009
85 posts
“The original 1984 Mac didn’t abstract away the computer — it made the computer...”
– John Gruber on usability beyond the Mac
La Blogotheque - The Take Away Shows: Architecture... →
Toroki LS4810 OpenFlow enabled Gigabit switch →
Engadget: N900 turned into PS3 controller courtesy... →
Why? Because they can.
GigaOM: The Androidification of Everything →
I wonder if this makes sense or if it’s just a fad. Sure Android has a complete stack, but it’s pretty tailored to phones and it’s hardly the only Linux stack — Palm and Nokia seem to be doing OK by using most of the Linux desktop stack.
Samsung finally released the TRIM firmware update... →
The Steam Holiday Sale →
Civ IV for $7, Braid for $2.50, etc.
Engadget HD: TiVo, Sony and others to FCC:... →
More on the “double box” proposal I mentioned previously.
The Register: Google Chrome OS goes native (code) →
“Seriously, the standard of investigative tech reporting now is so low that it...”
– Ian Betteridge doesn’t want to hear any more about the Apple tablet
AnandTech: Intel Atom D510: Pine Trail is what it... →
These benchmarks are hilarious.
Atom-powered Soekris net6501 promised for 2010 →
Cable Digital News: Consumer Groups to FCC: Redo... →
After reading the petition, it looks like they’re actually proposing two boxes: one that converts the cable/satellite/DSL/fiber signal to Ethernet and another that handles display and everything else. Although my previous political misgivings stand, at least this is technically feasible (if expensive). Also, good luck getting either clear video over Ethernet or a non-NDA’d conditional...
Ars Technica: It's boring, until it's not: the... →
“I have successfully privatized world peace.”
– Tony Stark
La Blogotheque - The Take Away Shows: The National →
Louis Gray: Growing Grumblings on Tech News Don't... →
Even if the problem can’t be fixed, it’s still worth complaining about IMO.
James Hamilton: Networking: The Last Bastion of... →
Storage still has a ways to go too, since the “good stuff” (SVC, Data OnTAP, Enginuity, etc.) isn’t available in the DIY market.
AnandTech: More About 4K Sector Hard Disks →
UC Berkeley ParLab: A Pattern Language for... →
“In the mean-time, I am refilling my lolwut meter with a quadruple supply of...”
– Nick Hilliard explains the interaction between network operators and government bureaucrats
“If The Economist can use the word bullshit, in the technical sense —...”
– mnemonicsloth
Damn, when did 802.11n cards get so small? →
“I said nothing: what is there to say? Didn’t I already spend enough time on this...”
– Scott Aaronson explains the interaction between scientists and the media
David Zeuthen: udisks and gnome-disk-utility →
This looks even better than OS X’s Disk Utility. Arguably for headless servers you want a Web app, not a thick client for Mac/Windows. It seems like oVirt gets this but Red Hat doesn’t have a consistent strategy.
Broadband Politics: Steal These Policies:... →
My position on DPI is somewhere between Finkelstein’s and Bennett’s; as with voting machines, I would be willing to believe that a DPI box doesn’t violate privacy if that could be shown in a third-party audit. Short of such assurance, just say no.
GigaOM: How Facebook Squeezes More From Its... →
LSI Samples First 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip IC with... →
Fixstars OpenCL Cross Compiler (FOXC) for x86 →
Google is starting to implement power capping and... →
Charles and I are feeling very satisfied.
Cloud Exchange is graphing EC2 spot prices →
It would be interesting to graph the price difference between regions and between different instance sizes (normalized per ECU, natch).
Freedom to Tinker: Best Practices for Online... →
Luis Villa: Google is your butler - the tension... →
“The thing that bugs me about [Eric Schmidt’s soundbite] is that he doesn’t seem to realize there is a tension. These words don’t speak of ‘we’re wrestling hard with this question every day’ (a reasonable compromise position) or ‘we’re doing everything we can to collect as little data as possible’ (the pragmatic civil libertarian perspective). They speak of a company (or at least a CEO)...
Scott Berkun: When visualizations go wrong →
MS Datacenters Blog: Rightsizing Servers to... →
(BTW, you ‘softies need to stop using WYSIWYG HTML editors; the resulting formatting is garbage.)
Sam Ruby has a useful post about setting up a personal mail server and getting all the SSL certificates right (which I am all too familiar with, given all the “example.org” certs that seem to come with Fedora). Unfortunately, some of the comments are pretty depressing; even hackers don’t want to bother with all the configuration that’s required for a mail server with...
The Register: IBM's XIV roadmap includes multiple... →
“I suppose I should rush out to file a patent on layering SSL back onto web...”
– jerf
(You forgot to use XML.)
“In his travels, your editor has heard complaints from developers who set out to...”
– Jonathan Corbet on the Linux development process
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances →
Exactly how I would have done it. Next up: futures?
“Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail.”
– Paul Kedrosky
La Blogotheque: The Take Away Shows: Phoenix... →
“Now I’d would guess (educated slightly) that the amount of code required...”
– Dave Airlie explains why 2010 is not the year of Linux on the desktop
The Tech Report: Intel releases Turbo Boost... →
There’s some irony in using bloatware to monitor turbo mode. And Cyril, all the cores run at the same speed (some tools report otherwise, but they don’t understand how SpeedStep works).
The Tech Report: Western Digital brings 4K sectors... →
“Almost all of the digital [electric] meters have an IR LED that blinks once for...”
– yellowbkpk
I was not aware of that.
Jeff Darcy: Imma let you finish, but ZFS-FUSE is... →
Marco Arment: The Tumblr Backup app is ready for... →
“But then I thought sure, it may not be used much; but when it does, it could...”
– Degrees on GStreamer for z/Linux