July 2010
51 posts
Rational Survivability: On the Bullshit That is... →
MeeGo Handset Project Day 1 is Here →
Sigh, the UI looks completely different from Maemo.
TechFlash: Microsoft Kin is dead →
“Microsoft has neither confirmed nor denied reports that only 500 of the Kins were sold since the launch last month.” Ouch.
“The result of my experiment is that no, the Boehm GC does not win for a server....”
– Zed Shaw
June 2010
60 posts
Cisco Home Energy Management →
The overkill.. the overkill…
Introducing Hulu Plus →
Most discussion has focused on the larger catalog and whether it’s worth the money, but I think the real point here is that for $10/month you can watch Hulu where you want to.
Engadget: Hacked N900 blazes through Froyo →
“There is a well-established game around enterprise sales. It involves golf,...”
– gruseom
The US National Strategy for Trusted Identities in... →
Some cypherpunks must be blowing a gasket right now.
AnandTech: OCZ's RevoDrive Preview →
Wow, that is kludgy.
The Register: Azul goes virtual with Java... →
I guess they couldn’t convince any of the cloud vendors to rent out Azul boxes.
“I need to contract some sort of very contagious yet only mildly symptomatic...”
– cowscows
Wired: You Don’t Want ISPs to Innovate →
As I have said previously.
HPCwire: PathScale reverse-engineers Nvidia GPUs... →
Pixz: Parallel XZ compression →
Nimbula Cloud Operating System →
Looks like the real deal, unlike everything else on the market.
Helpful Sysadmin: Dell reverses position on 3rd... →
“It sounds like academia could only be more feudal if you had to call your...”
– Robin_Message
Wired: Verizon Pushes 10 Gbps Through Fiber... →
I don’t see the point of such R&D given Verizon’s halt of FIOS deployment.
LSI Launches Family of Configurable White Box... →
Why buy a rebranded LSI box when you could just go to the source?
“Mac’s UX is not bad to the extent they have adopted a Gnome like desktop....”
– BenoitEssiambre revises history
“Just think of all the money and aggravation I’m saving by not killing people...”
– Penn Jillette
CircleID: A Modest Proposal for ICANN →
“I wish there was a paper or at least a PDF of the slides, but the link to the...”
– An Anonymous Coward peers into the echo chamber
Alex Varanese: ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS →
The Luminous Landscape: The Panasonic GH1 Video... →
“European teens and 20-somethings who sprinkle 68000 opcodes on their Müsli each...”
– bitwize tldrs the demo scene
OCZ Vertex 2 Pro SSD →
Looks like they’re charging $250 for the supercap. I guess if you need it, you need it bad.
PhotoCity →
Social, check. Location-based, check. Game mechanics, check.
The Register: Facebook's critics 'unrealistic',... →
Commercially impossible? The plantation owners always say that…
“On to an analysis of the coverage by “journalists.” I’m not...”
– Brad Spengler
Linux Magazine: The Party of Gno →
Anton Kapela: Recipe for Live streaming from... →
Light Reading: AT&T Enforces Data Cap on Femtos →
I never did like ‘em.
EE Times: Apple's A4 dissected and discussed →
It’s not the same as Samsung’s SSPC, but nobody knows what the difference is.
Transit Portal: Wide-Area Route Control for... →
“I get so used to my tens of thousands of cores that I forget the amazing things...”
– houseabsolute appreciates EVE Online’s frugality
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam and Remzi H.... →
The Register: SeaMicro uncloaks 512-core server →
“The SM10000 passes the TPM Server Test of having an elegant design: mainly, I want one, and I am not even sure why. I’ll figure out what to do with it later.” A man after my own heart.
James Hamilton: SeaMicro Releases Innovative Intel... →
Maximum PC: The R.A.T.7 is the Best Gaming Mouse... →
Google IPv6 Implementors Conference →
Things are looking up; maybe the Internet won’t collapse after all.
“Psh. Noob. I liquid cool and overclock my snapdragon to 4.5 GHz. The...”
– dnahelicase laughs at your puny 2GHz phone
LWN: When getting your code merged costs more than... →
“There never seemed to be a point where the job was done - the finish line kept moving every time they seemed to get close to it.”
“The problem is that lawmen seem to come out of nowhere after I kill a few...”
– chronomitch
Cinavia Technology →
A decade after SDMI, watermarking has finally been deployed to the general public. (And it’s from the same company: Verance. Their persistence has finally paid off in the form of a legislated monopoly.)
OpenStoragePod →
This is still crap hardware like Backblaze, and to get strong semantics (as implied by “enterprise”) from crap hardware requires complex software that isn’t available as open source.
Ben Laurie: XAuth: Who Should Know What? →