March 2012
67 posts
Dan Hersey: Your Network Is About To Get Simpler →
OpenFlow 1.2 →
February 2012
77 posts
Charles Lefurgy, Alan Drake, Michael Floyd,... →
IBM Research: Self-Protecting Microprocessor Saves... →
Time Warner Cable: Launching An Optional... →
Seriously, 5 GB? Last time they tried this the cap was 40 GB.
Feng Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Alex Gerber, Z. Morley... →
Everything they never told you about mobile data performance and power. Interesting result: persistent HTTP connections can waste power if the timeout is longer than ~10 seconds, because closing the connection causes the radio to enter a high-power state.
Tyler WM - OSX Tiling Window Manager →
I think I prefer Moom, but your taste may vary.
“I find it flummoxing that none of the parties did the rational actions available...”
– The Lifespan of Scalzi Getting Punked
Cloud Toad: Network, Interrupted →
Internet Governance Project: A whole /8 for sale →
These capitalist dogs have a whole /8 but they can’t afford to hire enough sockpuppets to change ARIN policy? Sad. (Also, it shouldn’t be that hard to narrow down the seller, since there aren’t that many legacy class As and we can assume that ISPs or governments would never sell their addresses. What’s left is a short list: GE, IBM, Xerox, DEC, Apple, Ford, CSC,...
“I never realized Dr. Dre’s “Dr.” was for a Ph.D. in Electrical...”
– freealloc is not down with Beats Audio
Philipp Güring & Ian Grigg: Bitcoin & Gresham's... →
Warning: Results may vary.
LWN: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE... →
GigaOM: T-Mobile pounds the first nail in 2G’s... →
I never understood why all the carriers haven’t done this already.
The Verge: TiVo transcoder and IP-based set top... →
“The IP-STB is a box that sits somewhere between a TiVo and a Roku or Boxee box…” SRSLY? How big is the market of people who want half a dozen boxes attached to their TV?
Ernest Cline: Ready Player One →
For all you children of the 80s out there.
William Edwards: Cogs Bad →
“The first enemy of performance is multiple machines. The fewer machines that need to talk to perform a transaction, the quicker it is. … You might even fit your whole app onto one box. … You might not even need tiers.” An almost futurist perspective.
ipSpace: NEC+IBM: Enterprise OpenFlow you can... →
GigaOM: Forget startups, IBM may take home the SDN... →
“As the first tier of network switching moves into the server, the virtual switch becomes extremely strategic real-estate and control point for emerging SDN architectures.”
“What could go wrong with an apples-to-orange comparison of two different storage...”
– Tony Pearson is getting the hang of this blogging thing
Arvind Narayanan, Vincent Toubiana, Solon Barocas,... →
“Even if we assume that centralized and decentralized architectures represent equally viable equilibria, which one is actually reached might be entirely a consequence of historical accident.” :-(
AnandTech: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait)... →
Kraaaaaait!
ZDNet: Apache releases first major new version of... →
Apache cares about performance? Is this the apocalypse?
Danny Hillis, Rob Seaman, Steve Allen, and Jon... →
Alternately inspiring and morbid. “The clock is designed to operate unattended for as many as 10 millennia between human visits. … If the skies are overcast for several centuries, the Clock’s calendar display could gain or lose days in its calendar count, but the correct solar time will be restored when the Sun returns. “
Arvind Narayanan: Is Writing Style Sufficient to... →
“If you dislike splash screens but don’t have an SSD, then you have already...”
– pjscott puts your money where your mouth is
Wonderputt →
Walter Jon Williams: The Fourth Wall →
Straight to paperback again, WJW gets no respect. What is the deal, Orbit? (In retrospect, I see that Deep State doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page though.)
Tom Francis: Gunpoint Business Cards Render... →
Speaking of irrelevance, what is the point of letting people vote on games they haven’t played?
“Once when I asked a girl to Bump me her contact info, she left for the ladies...”
– Om Malik submits an entry for Shit Silicon Valley Says
(Maybe she was already Bumping someone else.)
Jeff Darcy: FAST’12 Report →
Viget Advance: 10 OmniGraffle tips you might not... →
“Journalists reporting on the story didn’t add anything to this —...”
– Clay Johnson spent 25 minutes; how long did they spend?
IBM System Networking Distributed Virtual Switch... →
It’s like five times better.
Havoc Pennington: All this new stuff in Linux →
“[Unix people don’t] understand the big picture of why all this new stuff was needed. I think there’s one big reason: dynamic change. The old ways of doing things almost all involve editing a text file and then restarting all affected applications. But to implement the UIs that people expect (as you’d find on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac), everything has to be...
Mother Jones: Should Idiots Be Allowed to Regulate... →
GigaOM: Wah! Wah! Mommy, Skype won’t play with me →
“There really is only one standard, the one that has the most users.”
“Let’s say a good estimate is that 100% of Windows based computers are...”
– brookseven is not surprised
EtherealMind: How Juniper QFabric Works →
CircleID: Google's Free Public DNS Load Tops... →
Even when ICANN puts something out to bid, their beauty-contest process ensures that the most over-engineered and thus most expensive bid wins.
Daring Fireball on Ed Bott: Why Windows on ARM Has... →
“Why not just add those features to the Metro version?” It may be that some use cases are not really compatible with the Metro philosophy.
“As far as I can tell these days, True UNIX Experience is limited to those who...”
– daniels
ipSpace Webinar: OpenFlow and Software Defined... →
Philip S Corwin: MegaBust's MegaQuestions Cloud... →
paulhaggis: Anonymous is a childish sudo-terrorist group...
gee_totes: A terrorist group with the power of sudo is a scary thought.
Cathode Vintage Terminal for Mac →
I was thinking “JWZ would love this”; then I scrolled down.
The Register: Pseudo masochism is fuelling ACTA... →
“I’d rather work for a very small minority of free users, than try to be an...”
– Dave Winer isn’t going back to Facebook
Rusty Russell: Why Everyone Must Oppose The... →
We just can’t have people going around single-handedly making major usability and performance improvements; it would be… uh…