This is a temporary refuge until I can rebuild Hack the Planet with alien technology. —Wes Felter The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-11784924-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @hack-the-planet)http://blog.felter.org/<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/497024/">LWN: A bcache update</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/23705215898http://blog.felter.org/post/23705215898Thu, 24 May 2012 20:00:29 -0500<a href="http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/meet-the-new-boss-worse-than-the-old-boss-full-post/">David Lowery: Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?</a>: <p>“I mean would you loan anyone money to make an album these days? I wouldn’t. I don’t even know if I would loan myself money to make an album in this day and age. … It seems the Bad Old Major Record Labels ‘accidentally’ shared too much revenue and capital through their system of advances. Also the labels ‘accidentally’ assumed most of the risk.” We may be reading the same thing about books in ten years. The Bad Old Publishers provide nothing of value to writers… oh, except advances.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/23699608999http://blog.felter.org/post/23699608999Thu, 24 May 2012 18:38:17 -0500“Yes, I am talking about a real-world JavaScript nation, whose banner shall unite web 2.0 ninjas, wizards and pirates (not the rockstars, though, those use Ruby) from all over the world.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4020210">Camillo</a>.js</em>http://blog.felter.org/post/23699407677http://blog.felter.org/post/23699407677Thu, 24 May 2012 18:35:12 -0500<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/22/microsoft_research_flat_datacenter_storage/">The Register: Microsoft's FDS data-sorter crushes Hadoop</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/23636742607http://blog.felter.org/post/23636742607Wed, 23 May 2012 18:32:25 -0500<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/22/designing-for-pcs-that-boot-faster-than-ever-before.aspx">Building Windows 8: Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before</a>: <p>This seems like a huge improvement, although mostly obvious. Maybe in Win10 they’ll move BIOS setup to an in-band app.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/23636731375http://blog.felter.org/post/23636731375Wed, 23 May 2012 18:32:16 -0500<a href="http://blog.level3.com/2012/05/17/an-ip-engineer-and-consumer-view-of-xfinity-traffic-prioritization/">Level 3: An IP Engineer and Consumer View of Xfinity Traffic Prioritization</a>: <p>Basically the same as Berg’s analysis. Does anything that uses public IP addresses count as part of the Internet?</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/23529101013http://blog.felter.org/post/23529101013Mon, 21 May 2012 23:43:43 -0500“I’m looking at grub2. It’s a boot loader. It is 1000 files. All of plan 9 — kernel, libraries, window system, editors, everything — is 4300 files.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/102325349472273329333/posts/6fNrQRj7rfB">Ron Minnich</a></em>http://blog.felter.org/post/23529087055http://blog.felter.org/post/23529087055Mon, 21 May 2012 23:43:24 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/42106181" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://blog.felter.org/post/23372942513http://blog.felter.org/post/23372942513Sat, 19 May 2012 16:43:30 -0500<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/content/PDF/kepler/NVIDIA-Kepler-GK110-Architecture-Whitepaper.pdf">NVIDIA Kepler GK100 Architecture</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/23270663949http://blog.felter.org/post/23270663949Thu, 17 May 2012 21:54:08 -0500<a href="http://blog.comcast.com/2012/05/the-facts-about-xfinity-tv-and-xbox-360-comcast-is-not-prioritizing.html">Comcast: The Facts about Xfinity TV and Xbox 360: Comcast is Not Prioritizing</a>: <p>In some sense this is right: because they’re effectively giving you extra bandwidth and using that for Xfinity, your Internet traffic is not slowed down.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/23215762107http://blog.felter.org/post/23215762107Thu, 17 May 2012 00:30:07 -0500<a href="http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system801/The_801_Minicomputer_an_Overview_Sep76.pdf">George Radin, et al.: The IBM 801 Minicomputer</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/23148395072http://blog.felter.org/post/23148395072Tue, 15 May 2012 22:43:26 -0500<a href="http://ber.gd/post/23025893856/comcast-traffic-prioritization">Bryan Berg: Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast's network</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/23087594302http://blog.felter.org/post/23087594302Mon, 14 May 2012 23:13:12 -0500<a href="http://blog.boundary.com/2012/05/14/visualizing-network-flow-data/">Boundary: Visualizing Network Flow Data</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/23087509377http://blog.felter.org/post/23087509377Mon, 14 May 2012 23:11:26 -0500<a href="http://eftm.com.au/2011/11/iconic-bo-beosound-9000-to-be-killed-off-2100">EFTM: Iconic B&O BeoSound 9000 discontinued</a>: <p>A true end of an era.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/22938694675http://blog.felter.org/post/22938694675Sat, 12 May 2012 20:07:44 -0500<a href="http://sworcery.tumblr.com/">Sworcery A/V Jam</a>: <p>amirite?</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/22930201210http://blog.felter.org/post/22930201210Sat, 12 May 2012 17:37:15 -0500<a href="http://techliberation.com/2012/05/09/more-on-net-neutrality-the-importance-of-business-model-experimentation-pricing-flexibility/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: techliberation (Technology Liberation Front)">TLF: More on Net Neutrality, the Importance of Business Model Experimentation & Pricing Flexibility</a>: <p>But all of the “experiments” from US broadband ISPs have been evil. ISPs have no intention of lowering prices or delivering better service, so it doesn’t matter whether non-neutrality could allow that.</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/22867798225http://blog.felter.org/post/22867798225Fri, 11 May 2012 18:48:32 -0500<a href="http://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/what-the-battle-for-sdn-reveals/">Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds: What the Battle for “SDN” Reveals</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/22867782420http://blog.felter.org/post/22867782420Fri, 11 May 2012 18:48:17 -0500<a href="http://dcurt.is/hbo-forbes-journalism">Dustin Curtis: Why HBO's president panned internet streaming and how Forbes manipulated his words into linkbait</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/22867766794http://blog.felter.org/post/22867766794Fri, 11 May 2012 18:48:03 -0500<a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336">Kathleen Nichols, Van Jacobson: Controlling Network Queue Delay</a>http://blog.felter.org/post/22745487079http://blog.felter.org/post/22745487079Wed, 09 May 2012 18:47:27 -0500<a href="http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2012/05/the-end-of-the-learning-curve.html">Electronics Weekly: The End Of The Learning Curve Is Nigh, says Broadcom</a>: <p>“28nm will never be cheaper than 40nm across the whole lifetime of the node.”</p>http://blog.felter.org/post/22745470506http://blog.felter.org/post/22745470506Wed, 09 May 2012 18:47:14 -0500