May 2010
44 posts
Amin Vahdat: PortLand data center networking code... →
Slashdot: Earthlink Announces It Must Honor... →
More evidence that fake competition (aka open access) won’t solve broadband’s problems.
“Sending non-TCP packets with DF=1 in the hopes that the application implements...”
– Tim Evens
The Register: Cray launches Gemini super... →
It’s curious that they would use a 48-port switch to build a 3D torus; perhaps they eventually have a different topology in mind.
The Register: Violin announces yet another flash... →
It’s a little hard to see why this is better than striped SandForce SSDs.
The Register: Intel abandons discrete graphics for... →
That’s what I’m talking about. MIMD or bust, baby.
Comcast Labs and ISC release IPv6 Open Source... →
VoltDB 1.0 →
What was that NoSQL thing about again? :-)
Ars Technica: Red Dead Redemption review: it's... →
I think it’s more Sergio Leone than Deadwood, but why quibble.
Damn Cougars
Basalt: I'm picturing dragging an angry cougar into the middle of town and setting it free.
Troublesome Strumpet: Don't bother. She'd just go straight to the bar and pick up young ranch ha....OH YOU MEAN AN ACTUAL CAT! My bad.
LSI releases flash caching firmware for MegaRAID... →
This looks dramatically cheaper than Adaptec’s MaxIQ.
AnandTech: Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally... →
Matt Sherman: 0.facebook.com is not neutral
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GigaOM: AT&T’S Slow Road to Fast Broadband →
Closer to the customer? How many times do they want to rip up their network?
Swiss Fort Knox →
Now that’s what I call net neutrality.
Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) Interface 1.0 →
This looks great if you want to squeeze maximum performance from modern multicore machines.
James Hamilton: When Very Low-Power, Low-Cost... →
IEEE Spectrum: Anybots QB Telepresence Robot Lets... →
Not Johnny Five, but still pretty cool.
James Hamilton: Computer Room Evaporative Cooling →
EETimes: Dell, IBM give thumbs up to ARM servers →
BareFeats: MacBook Pro SSD comparison →
Rational Survivability: The Hypervisor Platform... →
Slicehost/Rackspace admits defeat; they can’t afford to develop their own platform that can compete with commercial hypervisors. Good riddance paravirtualization.
Ars Technica: Can we have fair use without fair... →
“They are building an operating system, not just assembling bits, they are...”
– Frederic Peters explains why Ubuntu isn’t a distro
4.14 GHz POWER7 breaks SPECint2006 world record →
If everyone else is going to cheat, we’ll just cheat harder. This is why we can’t have nice things.
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD →
There you go; 7% overprovisioning gives more reasonable price/GB and it’s probably still as fast as Intel.
Nate Lawson: A new direction for homebrew... →
The Storage Anarchist: EMC announces VPLEX →
“Worse still, what happens if IBM announces that SVC will now support the...”
– StraightTalk is caught in a maze of twisty LUNs, all alike
Matt Brubeck: Implementing the viewport meta tag... →
This should help a lot; many Web sites are currently rendered way too small on the N900.
Reuven Cohen: Failure as a Service
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From the department of things you can’t say.
“As it happens, we know about these issues, and the new ones that come up every...”
– SyFy’s Craig Engler is harnessing the collective intelligence… of trolls
Wired: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an... →
James Iry: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong... →
A refreshing change from the “if programming languages were _____” genre. But no Erlang?
“There are a lot of people who can write drivers. To date, there is only one...”
– hyperbovine
Cloudscaling: Understanding Cloud Datacenter... →
There’s a key point in here that you save money not by buying more hardware (as “economy of scale” would suggest) but by buying different hardware. Of course, this raises questions about why enterprisey enterprises would be willing to use whitebox-based clouds when they’re not willing to buy whiteboxes themselves.
CircleID: Why There's No Business Case for FttH to... →
“The three leading smart phone ecosystems (iPhone, Android, Blackberry) do not...”
– Mark Roulo puts the shoe on the other foot
“I am definitely leaving any warp calculations out, as Jeremy wisely points out...”
– Glauber Costa
AnandTech: The Impact of Spare Area on SandForce,... →
Why stop at 13%?
Rouse: a proposal for an OmniWeb-inspired browser →
Extreme Networks Introduces 40 Gigabit Ethernet... →
“I write games for a living, and the thought of developing them in html5, with...”
– reitzensteinm