Hot Chips
Open vSwitch. This is a lot more interesting to me than VN-Tag or VEPA.EE Times: IBM cracks open lid on Power7.
SemiAccurate: AMD outs Socket G34. Oh my, that motherboard is beautiful.
SemiAccurate: Intel details Beckton.
iFixit: PlayStation 3 Slim Teardown. “Wait, a new slimmer PS3 came out? why hasn’t Engadget made more posts about this?” — urdaddy
Above the Clouds: Clouds and Peer-to-Peer. “Datacenter clouds and p2p systems are not a substitute for each other.” We need to distinguish between P2P as a technology (really distributed protocols) and P2P as a deployment model (really PC2PC).
Chris Dixon: Six strategies for overcoming “chicken and egg” problems.
Freedom to Tinker: Subpoenas and Search Warrants as Security Threats.