impossible circuit – Jon Lewis – edu.merit.nanog – MarkMail
Before you read further, I need everyone to put on their thinking WAY outside the box hats. I’ve heard from enough people already that I’m nuts and what I’m seeing can’t happen, so it must not be happening…even though we see the results of it happening.
Internet Memes
A reminder of everything that is wrong with the Internet.
End of the road for the Mean Machine TP52 programme
Frankly, it seems a bit of a cop out. They’re running 4th in a fleet of 20 boats with two regattas to go. Make it a contest all the way to the fat lady singing…
Schneier on Security: The DNS Vulnerability
The whole mess is a good illustration of the problems with researching and disclosing flaws like this.
[Quotable] NetNewsWire, JotSpot, Git, Google, old Texas sayings, etc. – (37signals)
“What do they say in Texas? ‘The only thing in the middle of the road are yellow lines and dead armadillos.'”
Git for the lazy – Spheriki
“git is a distributed version control system. No, you don’t need to know what that means to use this guide. Think of it as a time machine: Subversion or CVS without the suck.”
Man spent $1,000 a week on beer? | Reuters
”(That is) poor judgment on two counts there — drinking that much and drinking Melbourne Bitter,” magistrate Vince Luppino was quoted as saying.
Watch out for everyone or no one – (37signals)
“Don’t say everyone or no one. It doesn’t mean anything.”
Ed Boyden’s blog: How to Think “….teach a class called ‘How to Think’, which would focus on how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving…”
Virtual Geek: VM HA – service console networking, isolation behaviour – and other under the covers stuff “Boy, this is a topic that just never stops giving :-)”
Coding Horror: Maybe Normalizing Isn’t Normal “Traditional database design principles tell you that well-designed databases are always normalized, but I’m not so sure.”
VMware to raise prices in Europe, Australia and New Zealand by 10% starting Sep. 2 | virtualization.info “virtualization.info has just learned that the 10% price increase is confirmed also in Australia and New Zealand. We can’t confirm when the new prices will be applied. It seems that the high currency volatility is not just a European problem.”
EXCLUSIVE: VMware employee reveals internal details on CEO removal, exposes Tucci and Moritz confidential emails | virtualization.info “This confirms a couple of points which virtualization.info speculated on: Diane Green was working to sell VMware and finally unchain it from EMC; Her departure will eventually lead to a mass-exodus….”
Oren Hurvitz’s Blog – LinkedIn Architecture “At JavaOne 2008, LinkedIn employees presented two sessions about the LinkedIn architecture.”
Esoteric Curio – Scalability and concessions Follow up… “I would like to comment on something I see repeated again and again and is likely misinterpreted by young scalability architects. The statement of what you should expect to lose when you scale up/out.”