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  • TOS-Deep Dive (aka POSSE Hackfest ’11)

    Fortune Hunter, here I come.

  • Tuesday Night Deliverable: Build Mozilla (that’s right build your web browser)

    Fedora 15 on my laptop proved to be a winning combo for me. Although the build speed was slow, it did it. And I didn’t have any failures along the way. This experience was vastly different from my experiments with OpenLDAP on PowerPC using NetBSD. That was just one compile error after another.

  • History of Sage

    There’s a lot of stuff in Sage. And there’s been a lot of people who have commited software to the project over the years. Let’s take a closer look at what’s gone on to see what we can deduce based on the publicly available information.

  • IRC as the Front channel

    IRC may be old, but it is the hammer that hits most nails when you’re trying to trouble-shoot an immediate problem you’re having. I’m going to temper some of my pre-conceived notions about IRC and see how I can adapt to it.

  • Whodunnit: An Exercise in Passive Voice (via The Daily Post at WordPress.com)

    Point taken, try to limit the use of ‘to be’ + ‘verb’ + ‘by’. I’m probably more guilty of this than most. That and the use of probably. We've all heard the non-apology "mistakes were made." Chances are that some of us have even used it when trying to admit a mistake without quite fessing up…

  • AppleInsider | Apple seen merging iOS, Mac OS X with custom A6 chip in 2012

    In the bad old days of 1996 when Apple’s marketshare hit rock bottom, everyone fled to Windows 95 en masse. Disparaging the Mac OS every single one of the ‘professional’ technical press predicted the end of Apple. Oh, how wrong they were and the Mac loyal fan-base crowed and shouted with joy that Apple has…

  • First Sungard goes private and now Blackboard

    Companies that do IT Support for Higher Ed or make software used almost exclusively in Higher Ed are starting to see a lot of privatization efforts recently. I wonder what this means for the folks running the support desks, the Data Centers, etc.

  • Google confirms Maps with local map downloads as iOS lags | Electronista

    Downloading local maps is becoming an absolute necessity in this day and age of not so unlimited downloading. Especially if you suffer the fate worse than death known as Roaming Data Charges! Can you say $1,000.00 Cell Phone Bill?? So do yourself a favor and download some maps before traveling overseas with your smartphone, yo.

  • SeaMicro pushes Atom smasher to 768 cores in 10U box • The Register

    Seamicro just keeps cranking out new product. They are like the Apple of the massively parallel cloud computer in a box segment of the industry. They just recently moved from old style x86 32bit Intel Atom CPUs to fully x64 capable cpus. And now the increased the density of the cpus on each compute node…

  • NoSQL is What? (via Jeremy Zawodny’s blog)

    Great set of comments along with a very good description of advantages of using NoSQL in a web application. There seems to be quite a bit of philosophical differences over whether or not NoSQL needs to be chosen at the earliest stages of ANY project. But Jeremy’s comments more or less prove, you pick the…