British PM acknowledges and apologises for treatment of Alan Turing

Anyone who has either an understanding of the role that the computers played in World War II, or has a…

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Aside – EMC Acquires Kazeon

EMC has been buying so many companies lately that sometimes it’s difficult to remember who did what, and why they…

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Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla

Storagezilla makes a brief mention of a new EMC acquisition called FastScale. My (even briefer) coverage of it is that…

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Most popular in August

The most visited post in August was again, Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux). I think part…

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(Semi) Aside – Interesting article on practical heuristics

Over at Daring Fireball, there’s a link at the moment to Wil Shipley’s article on implementing heuristics within various applications…

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Aside – Data Visualisation

Referenced from undrln, there’s an article over at Business Week about some of the more innovative techniques being used in…

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Cloud Computing vs The Network Computer

Or, I can’t see the emperor’s new clothes… More than a decade ago, Sun bet its future on The Network…

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Aside – District 9

Last night I was lucky enough to see District 9. As a big Science Fiction fan, I enjoy scifi that…

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Aside – Other World Computing

There’s a company in the United States called Other World Computing, who mainly deal with selling products for Apple’s Macintosh…

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Aside – The scourge of filesystems

This morning I had to replace half of a mirror in my Linux server, which being a home server, meant…

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