March 2010
83 posts
The Register: Intel (finally) uncages Nehalem-EX... →
Let the Beckton vs. Magny-Cours vs. POWER7 comparisons begin.
Ars Technica: Bringing US privacy law into the... →
“Moral relativism is clearly an attempt to pay intellectual reparations for the...”
– Sam Harris
AnandTech: AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron... →
Kinda sad, but maybe it has a chance against Beckton.
The Register: Solaris for mainframes wilts under... →
They can’t replicate libc?
Ars Technica: It no longer does everything: no... →
This will have virtually no practical impact since Cell/Linux hackers don’t play games and Cell 1 is obsolete anyway. It’s not very good PR, though.
“I guess this marks the beginning of the end of the core-wars which superseded...”
– ajensen wishes those kids would get off his lawn
University of Cambridge: Capsicum - practical... →
Ben Laurie: Capability Operating Systems →
Neowin.net: Ubuntu will switch to base-10 units in... →
This won’t end well.
The Register: The Pirate Party is the shape of... →
Somewhat UK specific, but thought-provoking.
Matthew Kaufman: RTMFP Overview →
The ultimate P2P protocol (and the secret of ChatRoulette).
Ars Technica: Secrets of the Nexus One's screen:... →
SemiAccurate: First Jasper Forest SBB 2.0 module... →
This type of x86 SBB could allow more convergence between DIY open storage and traditional enterprise storage.
“There is just simply no chance in hell that a centrally managed, closed system...”
– drag explores the limits of the app store Ubuntu/Fedora
GigaOM: The Downside of User-generated... →
“How do you get your users to generate the kind of content you want them to produce instead of the kind they want to produce?” Awwww, those poor companies.
The Register: Dell mainstreams cloud servers →
I never understood why Dell was so reluctant to talk about DCS.
The latest version of Microsoft's datacenter... →
You might want to mute your speakers during that video.
Wow, Mellanox's 40 GbE NIC is $751 →
For comparison, the cheapest 10 GbE NICs I’ve seen are around $400. (A 40 Gbps cable costs nearly $500, though.)
James Hamilton: Using a Cloud Market Economy →
The Register: Cray ships more generic x86 blades →
Maybe they should merge with “SGI”.
GigaOM: Webscale Databases: Is Open Source Really... →
I guess we’re about to find out with VoltDB. (Update: I got a tip that VoltDB may be released as open source, so I could be wrong here.) Clearly the traditional enterprise software business model won’t work in this market.
BBC News: Media tycoons wanted: Make your own... →
Cute idea; somewhat poor article. What amount is as big as a two-car garage? Color is cheaper than B&W?
The Register: Intel Labs unveils PC power plans →
Now your laptop can run out of cap; I think someone’s been playing EVE Online.
Russ Cox: Zip Files All The Way Down →
Ubuntard: Wikipedia, Notability, and Open Source... →
I never knew about the “canvassing” rule; the more I hear about wikipolitics the worse it looks. OTOH, it does seem odd that a piece of software can be widely used yet have no MSM coverage.
NOW Magazine: Jaron Lanier's strange SXSWi ride →
“That’s fu-ta-mu-ra, a Japanese name; not fu-tu-ra-ma, the TV show. I read...”
– jrockway injects the Futamura Projection
David Sehr, Robert Muth, Cliff Biffle, Victor... →
NaCl for ARM and x86-64.
Alan Donovan, Robert Muth, Brad Chen, David Sehr:... →
LLVM bitcode isn’t as portable as you might think due to endianness and bitness differences; they solved that by forcing all code to be 32-bit little endian.
Broadcom announces 64-port 10 GbE (or 16-port 40... →
This is a big jump from the 24-port Fulcrum chip; it seems like we were on that plateau for a long time. It’s only half the throughput of the InfiniScale IV, though.
Joystiq: Molyneux says Heavy Rain offers the... →
“For Twitter, doing good would mean decentralizing, not making every tweet flow...”
– Dave Winer
Big Gig Austin →
Yeah, we want it.
Engadget: EVGA Classified SR-2 fits two 980X CPUs,... →
James McNally: SXSW 2010 Compilation Champs →
Wired: SXSauced: Sinfully Good Cocktails at Péché →
Wired: SXSauced: Crafty Cocktails at East Side... →
Also, the ribs were delicious.
Mozilla Labs Online Identity Concept Series →
This looks cool, but I can’t escape the feeling that this grand vision is holding back the implementation of OpenID.
Light Reading Cable: FCC Floats 'Simple' Gateway,... →
As the kids say, Ethernet FTW.
Ars Technica: Big cable pushes 7 "consumer... →
Principle #1 sounds like a lie and it doesn’t get much better from there.
The Register: LSI and Seagate take on Fusion-io... →
AnandTech: The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores →
The Register: Intel pushes workhorse Xeons to six... →
The Register: LSI's SAS DAS SAN →
Maybe this could help dispel the “OMG SANs are WTFexpensive” myth, but probably not since I doubt any hosting providers will have it.
Ars Technica: Canonical's new COO gets religion on... →
Heh, you don’t say.
Digital Society: FCC should consider passive... →
Too bad home router vendors are total slackers.
Prezi - The zooming presentation editor →
I saw Joi Ito use this; it’s pretty cool. The zooming and panning can add some visual interest to a presentation without graphics.
Data Center Knowledge: How Fast Can You Build A... →