January 2011
86 posts
Jack McDevitt: Echo
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A good old-fashioned Jack Vance style space adventure.
December 2010
47 posts
Bruce Sterling on WikiLeaks →
“I’m not even going to get into the technical merits of shared storage vs....”
– Jeff Darcy faces the cloud cargo cult
Bruce Sterling on WikiLeaks →
SemiAccurate: Will Intel stack GPU memory on Ivy... →
AnandTech: Intel's SSD 310: G2 Performance in an... →
For people who can’t go all SSD, this would make a great cache in a laptop.
Barbara van Schewick: The FCC’s Open Internet... →
“I’m not even going to get into the technical merits of shared storage vs....”
– Jeff Darcy faces the cloud cargo cult
OSNews: Windows NT on ARM: Is It a Server Thing? →
Watch“Then I will blog about it and tell everyone that this is your fault because you’re abusing our peering.”
“How can you tell when you are the underdog versus when you are powerful? When...”
– Jaron Lanier on WikiLeaks
Jim Gettys: RED in a Different Light →
Jim Gettys: RED in a Different Light →
“my management is pretty disgusted with the badmouthing and accusation slinging...”
– unnamed Comcast employee
(If you don’t want to be badmouthed, try not being evil next time.)
“my management is pretty disgusted with the badmouthing and accusation slinging...”
– unnamed Comcast employee
(If you don’t want to be badmouthed, try not being evil next time.)
Microsoft is providing a H.264 plugin for Firefox →
You’ve paid for it; you might as well use it.
“The zone is in major part uncontaminated and totally harmless (save for rabid...”
– SharpFang on Chernobyl
Mihai Dobrescu, Katerina Argyraki, Gianluca... →
Run-to-completion, baby.
Ars Technica: Peering problems: digging into the... →
If the Voxel version wasn’t clear enough.
Maziar Manesh, Katerina Argyraki, Mihai Dobrescu,... →
It’s a shame no one can compare the 82599 with the XLP or Octeon II.
LWN: The kernel and the C library as a single... →
Maybe next we can get rid of these distros that are causing so much trouble.
Theophilus Benson, Aditya Akella, and David A.... →
Apache Software Foundation resigns from the Java... →
Tim Peierls resigns from the Java Community... →
“I am disappointed in all the “Yes” voters. Clearly Oracle intended...”
– Stephen Colebourne
Lucian Popa, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Gianluca... →
The Register: Nimbula releases instamatic cloud... →
The Register: Google defends native code Chrome... →
“Native Client is designed to ensure that each application module meets a set of structural criteria that allow it to dissemble instructions, and that it can’t contain certain instruction sequences.” Dissembling instructions? I don’t like the sound of that.
Martín Casado, Teemu Koponen, Rajiv Ramanathan,... →
The Register: Apache loses Java showdown vote to... →
Aw, I was hoping Oracle would lose the vote and disband the JCP.
Android 2.3 Platform Highlights →
Better UI responsiveness and support for Java-less apps (should be great for games).
Google: Being bad to your customers is bad for... →
“But if we demoted web pages that have negative comments against them, you might not be able to find information about many elected officials, not to mention a lot of important but controversial concepts.”
Steve Yegge: Haskell Researchers Announce... →
It’s even funnier if you get the totally incongruous Red Dead Redemption references.
Voxel: What's really going on between Comcast and... →
5/8 is now allocated to RIPE and being squatted by... →
This is going to get messy.
Google buys Widevine →
DRM to be redefined as non-evil. :-)
“Memory is really cheap and our engineering intuition is to avoid dropping data....”
– Jim Gettys iz in ur router
Snoracle buys TPC-C world record →
Using $22M of SSDs, $7M of servers, and $17M of software. (But apparently if you buy that much gear, Solaris is thrown in for free.) I wonder when the Sun Network 10GbE Switch 72p was announced.
Hacker Monthly - Issue #7 →
With a quote from me tucked in the corner.
IPv4 exhaustion has moved up from 2012 to 2011 →
Looks like ISPs in Asia Pacific will be getting coal for Christmas next year.
Adam Barth, David Huang, Eric Chen, Eric Rescorla,... →
Looking at the ensuing HyBi discussion, it looks like this paper has broken the WebSockets deadlock.
9 to 5 Mac: Apple makes PhotoFast stop production... →
The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google... →
Many of the whiners seem to be practicing SEO arbitrage, which isn’t even a legitimate business to begin with. It’s like anti-virus vendors complaining when Microsoft secures Windows.
The Register: Mellanox buys up Voltaire for $218m →
I never really understood the Mellanox business model. Why have multiple resellers who are adding virtually no value? Why would I buy Mellanox gear that’s re-labeled as Voltaire? I’d rather just buy it directly from Mellanox.
“At the moment, I’m all for giving those hyper-rich people ceremonial royal...”
– heteromeles on ceremonial royalty