January 2010
91 posts
“z/OS doesn’t ship with Flash because Adobe’s runtime burns MIPS like...”
– Lazlo_Nibble
The H: When is it worth saying it's Linux? →
I have long considered KDE and GNOME separate operating systems so this is hardly surprising.
The Register: Google mystery server runs 13% of... →
That’s a lot of splogs.
John Nack: Sympathy for the Devil →
I didn’t know Adobe is developing canvas authoring tools. I suspect the Flash-haters will be disappointed to discover that industry-standard “punch the monkey” ads will bog down your computer even worse than Flash.
Analysis of HTML5 Canvas Javascript performance in... →
Comcast IPv6 Trial Plans for 2010 Announced →
Not surprising given their work on Dual Stack Lite.
OWC Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD →
This appears to be the first shipping SandForce SSD. $4/GB is not too bad, but I don’t think it will prompt Intel to drop prices.
Dan Brickley: The decline of P2P and... →
Meh.
Ars Technica: EU has doubts as ISP rolls out DPI... →
This “anonymized” and “aggregated” data seems to be a big privacy grey area.
EFF: Some Lessons from the AT&T/Facebook Login... →
“Experimentally, we’ve determined that on a system where we plugged in 40...”
– Alex Chiang
(Daaaaamn.)
Fudzilla: Assassin’s Creed 2 DLC to arrive... →
I haven’t even played the Fallout 3 DLC yet.
Luke St.Clair, Lisa Johansen, William Enck,... →
Brandon: Nokia N900 with Maemo and Android? Yes... →
Not particularly useful as is, but it would be nice to be able to run Android apps on top of Maemo.
BGPmon.net Blog: 1.0.0.0/8 →
5.0.0.0/8 is also going to be a problem.
OCZ's customer guinea pig experiment continues... →
“We already have a good system for establishing identity on the internet....”
– bensummers on identity serfdom
TechCrunch: Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL... →
I can see Zuckerberg’s spin now: “If you don’t want your URL stolen by a company, just change your name.”
Hacker News: Google Chrome's H.264 support not... →
That’s not pretty.
GigaOM: VoIP over 3G sucks →
The Register: Europe clears Oracle Sun for... →
Now Sun can stop wasting away and Larry can get to work stripping it down for parts.
Ted Ts'o: The Transitive Grace Period Public... →
Unqualified Reservations: The Hanson-Moldbug... →
Brad Graham has died →
Perhaps the funniest person I have ever met. Goodbye Brad.
WatchWait, it’s now cheaper to green-screen someone walking down a sidewalk than to shoot it on an actual sidewalk?
I hate the tablet rumor frenzy, but I have to add something. Apple has officially said very little about the internals of the iPhone. That may be because it doesn’t matter or because the internals are not a competitive advantage over other smartphones. Apple has made big deals about Mac processors, especially when they get some kind of exclusive. If Apple announces a tablet, Jobs probably...
Lenovo RapidDrive Technology →
I’m surprised it took this long, although maybe the system vendors were counting on Intel to deliver Braidwood and had to change their plans late in the game.
The Register: IBM's Power7 servers imminent →
Dave Winer: The (safe) future of Radio and Manila →
So that’s what’s been going on.
Digital Society: Improving on Amazon’s Net... →
James Urquhart: Does the Fourth Amendment cover... →
The “expectation of privacy” test may be cause for hope. If a cloud provider’s privacy policy says “you can expect that we will treat your data as private”, does that override the third-party doctrine?
Tom Slee: Google: A warlord in a world of bandits? →
“The Internet is the most powerful communication medium ever, but we’ve...”
– Dave Winer on Jaron Lanier
danah boyd: Facebook's move ain't about changes in... →
“No one makes money off of creating private communities in an era of ‘free.’”
The Register: Steve Wozniak, your time is up →
If only we could have frozen Woz in carbonite in 1987 and put him in the Computer History Museum.
Concurring Opinions: Penalty Clauses and the Nexus... →
“Liquidated damages must be either a fair estimate of an uncertain harm, or be relatively close to the actual damages suffered by the promisee. The harm here isn’t at all uncertain, and I don’t think that charging more than the sales price constitutes a good measure of the seller’s actual damages.” Sounds like crazy high ETFs may be illegal.
Wired: $5M Buys the Ride of Your Life →
I love that paint job; it hurts my brain just to look at it.
Rational Survivability: Cloud Light Presents: Real... →
“Therefore, at some point in Martian history, some abject fsck of a Martian...”
– C. Guy Yarvin has a Pham Nuwen moment
“Deciphering OLPC press releases sometimes feels like I’m playing chess...”
– Benjamin M. Schwartz on the XO-3
Daring Fireball: The Original Tablet →
A great retrospective on the Newton. I had a MessagePad 120 back in the day.
I took another look at Cloud Pipe since it was updated over the holidays. It looks like a fine way to solve the NAT problem for some realtime clients.
I have an alternate suggestion about namespace handling. A Cloud Pipe ping looks like this on the wire:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<packets>
<fatPing...
“It has always amazed me watching people go about benchmarking. I should have a...”
– Larry McVoy Fact #7: When a benchmark doesn’t give the result Larry McVoy expects, the benchmark is wrong.
The (Updated) ICSI Netalyzr →
Find out if your ISP is doing evil.
Ubiquiti AirGrid M →
It’s hard to believe you can get an outdoor 802.11n CPE for $30.
Guru'Board Miniguru Keyboard →
Looks like the Happy Hacking has some competition.
Matias Tactile Pro 3 Keyboard →
Matias has a bad habit of discontinuing the Tactile Pro, so if you’re interested you might not want to wait.
VMware Go for ESXi →
Using a Web service to manage on-site assets? It’s SaaS gone horribly wrong.
I’m seeing a lot of press about ATI/AMD’s “cheap” new graphics cards (links deliberately omitted), but nobody seems to mention that you probably won’t be able to buy them for list price — if you can buy them at all. Comparing fake prices against real prices isn’t a good way to make a buying decision.