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…
Category: Aside
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…
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…
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…
(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…
Aside – Data Visualisation
Referenced from undrln, there’s an article over at Business Week about some of the more innovative techniques being used in…
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…
Aside – District 9
Last night I was lucky enough to see District 9. As a big Science Fiction fan, I enjoy scifi that…
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…
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…