David N. Welton: BikeChatter.com for sale
What with two kids, a new house, and LiberWriter getting some good traction, I've been looking around for things to give to a good home so as to have less stuff to deal with. So, on the auction block...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): O Lazy Web: What document scanner to get?
[Copied from my post on G+] I'm drowning in paper. I'm very definitely in the market for a portable document scanner. (Portable, as in doesn't have to reside permanently on a desk, but not hand-held...
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Bryan Pendleton: Winter weather
It appears that winter never came to the U.S.A. this year, but now we know where winter went instead: Europe.
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Bryan Pendleton: Needing/Getting
I absolutely cannot stop watching OK Go's newest video: Needing/Getting.Is it music? Is it art? Is it advertising? Is it promotional marketing (for the band, for the car)? Why, yes, it is! It is all...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Red aurora over Australia
My dad, knowing my penchant for time-lapses as well as celestial phenomena, sent me this link to Alex Cherney’s beautiful video of red and pink aurora over Australia. Linked by James Duncan Davidson.
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Carlos Sanchez: FOSDEM
The slides from my From Dev to DevOps talk at FOSDEM 2012 Brussels are up in Slideshare. The material is also in the Lanyrd page. The conference was huge, I’ve heard that over 4000 people showed up...
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Sergey Beryozkin: Distributed OSGi RI 1.3 is out!
The signs are that the fortunes of Distributed OSGI are looking good.Distributed OSGI RI based on Apache CXF (Apache CXF DOSGi RI) has been around for a while, and quite a few OSGI developers have...
View ArticleSander Temme: Somebody, Turn off That Tap!
I recently attended a keynote address by the CTO of a leading anti-virus firm. His company is fighting the good fight. Having recognized that signature-based malware detection no longer suffices, they...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Thom Hogan on the D800 introduction
Thom Hogan is pretty positive on the new D800, as positive as one can be without a copy in hand. The open questions for him are what does the output from high ISOs at display sizes look like—remember...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Nikon’s D800 Yang to D4 Yin
When Nikon released the D3 in 2007, and then the D700 a year later with the same sensor, the distinction between the top two cameras in the line up boiled down to size, build, viewfinder coverage,...
View ArticleJames Duncan: Where does pink come from if there’s no pink light?
Mathemagician Vi Hart explains why the color pink exists even though pink doesn’t exist in the rainbow. Quote: “Speaking in terms of light, pink should probably be called ‘minus-green,’ because pink is...
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Anton Tagunov: Need for an open-source mainstream capability-based OS
Sander Temme wrote:This situation paints for me the following picture: a tap is running, malware flowing like water into a sieve and onto the floor. The security industry is frantically mopping the...
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Anton Tagunov: The challenge of a back door
I've been long thinking about an ideal free secure open source OS.Now here's a tough question I haven't been able to resolve.I absolutely demand the universal freedom to know.Yet I do not want the bad...
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Rich Bowen: Biashara Street
Biashara StreetFebruary 5, 2012 From WeekendWordsmith.comStep away from theodour of bodies and exhaust into achutney of cardamomcinnamongingergarlicSacks ofcashews overflow ontofloors covered with...
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Bryan Pendleton: Chrome is dropping CRL checking
Google's Adam Langley explains why, and this Ars Technica article adds some more context.As Langley says:So soft-fail revocation checks are like a seat-belt that snaps when you crash. Even though it...
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Emmanuel Lecharny: Clueless...
Sometime, when moderating some Apache mails, you find jewels like this one :LinkedIn ------------ Apache, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Chris Chris XXX Lead XXXXXX...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2012-02-07
lrzip : ‘Lrzip uses an extended version of rzip which does a first pass long distance redundancy reduction. The lrzip modifications make it scale according to memory size. [...] The unique feature of...
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Ian Boston: Access Control Lists in Solr/Lucene
This isn’t so much about access control lists in Solr or Lucene but more about access control lists in an inverted index in general. The problem is as follows. We have a large set of data that is...
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Andrew Savory: Ripple
Here’s my experience using the Ripple emulator for BlackBerry WebWorks. There’s a bunch of awesome BlackBerry developers at the hackathon, but I’m determined to work this out without them walking me...
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Ioan Eugen Stan: NIO Iterator over messages in mbox file
I've started working on a small project called mbox-iterator that I wish to integrate with mime4j later, when it's more usable. The idea is to provide an Iterator over all the messages in a mbox file...
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