Fri, 29 Feb 2008
Links of the Day: Feb 29, 2008
It was posted a few days ago, but this article on incron was
interesting. Rather than run a script every so often to check for new files to
be processed, this hooks into the kernel and triggers a script when a file
handle event occurs.
Even my Mum mentioned the "Me-Tube" [sic] incident. Renesys
blog is again the best analysis to read on it.
[2008/02/29 / daily links permanent link]
Thu, 21 Feb 2008
Links of the Day: Feb 21, 2008
Not sure why but I searched for my name in Google. Fairly common name so it
wasn't till about page 7 that this
showed up. So I poked around a bit on the SFS site and found some more photos of us.
Kuro5hin article
barracking for more modularisation and sharing between software projects.
Apple stops
shipping Xserve RAID hardware just after $work[0] buys one. Sigh.
"Australian Workplace Agreements will be extinct by Easter after the Coalition
dropped its plans to delay their abolition until midyear." - SMH.
I think the thought process was suddenly "I don't think we're in government
anymore Toto!".
I've always wondered about the equation of computer use with computer literacy
/ savvy. It seems that a lot of commenators thought that just because those
children and teenagers growing up now use computers a lot also implies that
they understand them better and use them more powerfully. What total bunk! And
now there is a study on just this topic, covered
by CMS watch, which agrees with my unscientific conclusions.
Skewed priorities.
[2008/02/21 / daily links permanent link]
Tue, 19 Feb 2008
Links of the Day: Feb 19, 2008
I'm a Sony Ericcsson fanboi. Despite wanting a "smart phone" the P1 was totally
underwhelming, so I upgraded to a k850i.
Just in time for them to release the g900.
Sigh.
"It's a doggone chart buster - a song audible only to dogs has topped New
Zealand record charts, and is looking to go global." - SMH.
Portfolio.com has an interesting article on how P2P
users bit back at MediaDefender, a company who try to make life difficult
for leechers.
[2008/02/19 / daily links permanent link]
Mon, 18 Feb 2008
Links of the Day: Feb 18, 2008
Data Centre Knowledge reports on Speed
Cabling and links to another
story and the official site.
Crimping tools at 20 paces. What will they think of next?!?
Stilgherrian links
to a
story at El Reg on the cable cut rumours.
Speaking of the cable cuts, the Beebs has a nice article
covering all the basics and Steve Bellovin stirred the
rumour pot earlier this month.
[2008/02/18 / daily links permanent link]
Internet "news" and those cable cuts.
I've followed with interest the cable cuts in the Med and Middle East that have
seen rumour layered upon rumour and every armchair commentator lathered in to a
frenzy with conspiracy theories.
There has been excellent coverage at the
Renesys blog (Parts 1,
2,
3,
quash
Iran rumours, 4,
summary)
and Data Centre Knowledge has
been linking to lots of sane
coverage.
It's always struck me as rather odd that just because the Internet enables
everyone to have a say that everyone feels they should exercise that capability
at every opportunity on topics that they know very little.
People do strange things on the Internet. Film at 11.
[2008/02/18 / tech / internet permanent link]
Sun, 03 Feb 2008
CPU lines multiplying like rabbits?!?
So, I admit it's been a while since I really looked into x86 hardware, but I
remember a time when Intel and AMD (and any other CPU manufacturer...) had 2-3
lines at most. There was the one aimed at servers pitched at a speed/feature
set, the one aimed at desktops pitched at a price point and possibly a mobile
chip pitched at a low power/long battery life scenario.
Now you have 47 different types.
I think their thought process must go:
- Is it low power or high performance?
- How many cores does it have?
- Uniprocessor only or made for multiprocessor systems?
- 32bit or 64bit?
- Is it built down to a price or up to feature set?
And then throw in some variations in bus speeds and L2 cache sizes in the different models in the same line. To top it off give the models confusing names not based on any specification of the acutal CPU. Whimper.
Almost makes you want to be a luddite...
[2008/02/03 / tech / hardware permanent link]
Sat, 02 Feb 2008
Contacting Marty
Easiest is probably email: marty@supine.com.
There is also my presence on the various social networking sites: Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn.
[2008/02/02 / meta permanent link]
