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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Google Chromium OS Design Documents. Completely in accordance with prophecy. I wonder why they created their own userspace integrity system rather than using IMA.
leoc: "No iTunes. Less space than a Litl. Lame." Congratulations litl, you're already the industry standard.
Don Marti: "I know I promised you a computer for your birthday, but after your brother got us fifteen viruses, two identity thefts, and an RIAA lawsuit, you're getting a Google box."
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Register: Google App Engine and the myth of the open cloud. There are also practical problems like the total lack of Comet support.
Sandia Red Sky Time Lapse Installation Video. I've never seen a better ad for containers.
TechCrunch: The Google Phone May Be Data Only, VoIP Driven Device. I suspect that a VoIP call actually costs the carrier more than a voice call (and is lower quality of course), so I don't see why any carrier would go for this.
The Daily WTF: Introducing Bad Code Offsets. The perfect stocking-stuffer.
Slashdot: Fedora 12 Lets Local Console Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges. This is not such a bad idea, but releasing it with no notice or documentation was an epic mistake. (OTOH if it had been discussed beforehand the community would have responded with a +20 maelstrom of stop energy.)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Ask Dr. Peering: Paid Peering and Net Neutrality. This whole blog is really educational if you want to know how the Internet works.
Digital Society: FCC NPRM ban on Paid Peering harms new innovators. The NPRM is vague so I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions about what it means. The phrase "over this link" in the diagram indicates that prioritization over the last mile is the problem, not paid peering. We need to educate the FCC that the NPRM's language should be revised to exclude interpretations that would damage the Internet. (In the second diagram it's also not clear why Google gets free peering and other content providers don't, but that's neither here nor there.)
Fusion-io sells ioDrive Octal to spooks.
Wired: Assassins Creed II Is the Ultimate Killer App.
Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement. This doesn't really go into governance which is just as important as licensing, but it's definitely an improvement over Creative Commons.
Ars Technica: Broadcasters fighting back against wireless spectrum reform. In retrospect, I think we should have had tower-sharing and multiplexed digital SD over the air and left HD for cable and satellite.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Chris Messina: The death of the URL.
Havoc Pennington: litl and computer frustration. There are some great ideas in here, although it looks quite expensive and as a geek the Web site seems a little too friendly, what with the hardware specs being completely buried.
The Register: SGI previews 2048-core UltraViolet Beckton ccNUMA server. Sounds like a monster. Between UV shipping in Q3 and the Fermi Teslas in Q2, today must be the day for vaporware.
I find it hard to watch something like LOTR or The Prisoner because it just seems so cliche. On some level I realize that this is probably the original that the cliches were copied from, but still.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Dave Winer: Maybe it's time for personal servers? It's time, but IMO they won't be hardware and won't be in your home.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Jeff Bone: Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger.
O'Reilly Radar: Quarantined Conferences: Claustrophobic Technophiles or Attentive Audiences?
Thursday, November 12, 2009 beep beep
LWN: Gerrit: Google-style code review meets git. I couldn't find any screen shots but there is a live server. I've always been a fan of Hg, but the Git ecosystem is now enormous.
Google SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster Web. Who knew advertising could pay for all this stuff?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Economist: User-friendliness and fascism.
Ars Technica: Pirates navigate around Windows 7 activation again. Thanks Ars, I didn't really want to pay for 7 anyway.
Control Group: "It does seem an interesting dichotomy that a post which could be used as a 'search term tips' reference for people wanting to pirate Windows 7 is on the front page, but a post in the forums about how people could use ad-blocking software to defraud Ars is a bannable offense."
OCZ Technology to Deliver SandForce-based Solid State Drives. I've heard good things about SandForce.
Groklaw: Microsoft Patents Sudo? Inventing sudo took two people; reinventing it Microsoft-style required eight.
Freedom to Tinker: Targeted Copyright Enforcement: Deterring Many Users with a Few Lawsuits. What's that saying about underestimating the intelligence of the general public?
The Register: SAP slams Sun's control of Java. Damn open source hippies. Oh wait, now even the bigcos are turning against the JCP.
The Register: HP buys 3Com for $2.7bn cash. 3Com still exists?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 I am the walrus
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