15 Jan 2011
HPC
Oracle seems to stop work on Lustre
Slashdot on Lustre and Oracle
Some Benchmarks.
14 Jan 2011
GPUs
WhitePixel - 4 x dual ATI 5970 GPUs
11 Jan 2011
Hosting
Wow, this is a reasonable deal. Hostpoint.ch has fairly cheap virtual server hosting WITH ssh.
10 Jan 2011
Networking
Excellent articles from Jim Gettys.
The most important one talks about the affect of BufferBloat
More background
A paper that looks interesting but I've not read yet.
The mitigation strategy article is also interesting.
And finally, ZFS comes back to the Mac
09 Jan 2011
Old Computers
The layout of the 6502 was quite clean and clever.
Video on reverse engineering the 6502.
And some presentations from the people who did the work. 1 and 2.
Not so old computers
Spammers are getting way smarter. And browsers are getting way stupider.
Society
The Rise of the New Global Elite is interesting, but, I think the author is walking a fine line between writing a critical article, and, writing a suck up article in order to not be excluded from future 'tres cool' events.
01 Jan 2011
Computers
Reboot that satellite
Misc
Things to be cheerful about
Bruce O'Neel
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