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What's wrong with tape backup? 
(unknown author) via The Register on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Three papers about storage
Another week, another rummage through Reg Whitepapers. This time we delve into enterprise storage for your delectation. Let's kick-off with an ideological onslaught against tape backup for multi-branch operations.…
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Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online
(unknown author) via Ars Technica on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
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I need to do more work in Python.
Google's new App Engine uses Python as its primary programming language. Ars goes in search of the best Python programming resources on the web.Read More...
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Overstock's Byrne deciphers Economic Meltdown Civilization Deleveraging
(unknown author) via The Register on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Wall Street as post-coitus behavorial psychology
Radio Reg Patrick Byrne doesn't call it an economic meltdown. He calls it "the de-leveraging of a civilization."…
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Battlestar Galactica prequel shuns space, spaceships
(unknown author) via The Register on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Kinder, gentler Cylons
Battlestar Galactica, the hit sci-fi thriller about humans searching the galaxy for a planet to call home, will be spun off into a prequel that is set 50 years before androids rebelled against their makers and destroyed civilization as it was known.…
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What have we learned about managing outsourcing?
(unknown author) via The Register on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Keeping the balance of power in-house
A few years ago, I was talking to a quite senior chap in a well known IT outsourcing firm. “Trouble we have,” he said, “is that we’ve got all the good people.” Seeing the flummoxed expression on my face, he went on to explain. “It meant there was nobody left inside the organization to work with, who had any clue what we were doing.”
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Windows 7 will sport a DX10 "software GPU"
jon@arstechnica.com (Jon Stoke via Ars Technica on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Microsoft has spilled the beans on WARP10, a technology slated for Windows 7 that will bring DirectX 10 capabilities to systems that don't even have GPUs. Read More...
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Why it doesn’t matter where Product Manager lives in the organization
The Cranky Product Manager via The Cranky Product Manager on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The Cranky Product Manager has read, and listened, and pondered, and debated, and bit her tongue over the years, as others have debated the proper place in the organization for the Product Management function. Should it be in Engineering? Or in Marketing? Or in its own Products organization that reports directly to the CEO?
Not surprisingly, the answer depends on who you ask.
If
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The Private Life of a Public API
Jeff Moser via Moserware on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
In college, I'd add "public" in front of my classes and methods without giving it much thought. Sure, I knew about "protected" and "private" and would use them where it made sense, but I had no pragmatic experience of designing my "public" code so
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Countdown to Christmas: 5 Gift Ideas For Your Colleagues
pixelbits via Pixel Bits on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Christmas is coming and people are bugging me for gift ideas, so I decided to do a Countdown to Christmas series. Every day I will toss out gift ideas. There is no set structure so any suggestions and or requests are welcome. :) That said, on to the first installment: colleagues.
Yes, times are rough, but it’s always nice to show a token of appreciation to your colleagues. You
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Windows internet share drops below 90 per cent
(unknown author) via The Register on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Thanksgiving blamed
The number of Windows users surfing the web fell below 90 per cent for the first time, making for Microsoft's biggest market share drop in the past two years, according to new statistics.…
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Communications During Terrorist Attacks are Not Bad
schneier via Schneier on Security on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Twitter was a vital source of information in Mumbai:
News on the Bombay attacks is breaking fast on Twitter with hundreds of people using the site to update others with first-hand accounts of the carnage.
The website has a stream of comments on the attacks which is being updated by t
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SanDisk plans hat trick of SSD performance improvements
(unknown author) via Ars Technica on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
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I believe adding bits to each flash cell is a result of the M-Systems acquisition.
SanDisk isn't spilling all the beans just yet, but the company is hinting that it's got the technology to make many of SSD's negative aspects go away. Full disclosure is coming at CES 2009, but for now, here's what we know.
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Timidity Does Not Convince
(unknown author) via Programming in the 21st Centur on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
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I had no idea Wings3D was written in Erlang. Wow.
The only arguments that hold water, in terms of programming language suitability, are bold, finished projects. Not a mini-Emacs written in Haskell. Not a Sudoku solver in Prolog. Not a rewrite of some 1970s video game using Functional Reactive Programming. They need to be large and daring pro
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What Your Computer Does While You Wait
(unknown author) via Gustavo Duarte on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
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All programmers should know this.
This post takes a look at the speed - latency and throughput - of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz. I hope to give a feel for the relative speed of each component and a cheatsheet for back-of-the-envelope performance calculations. I’ve tried to show real-world throughputs
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Blogroll, November 2008
Denton Gentry via Coding Relic on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
The half-life of engineering knowledge is depressingly short. The old school way to stay current is via books covering technical topics, such as those published by O'Reilly and Associates and more recently by The Pragmatic Programmers. Though the quality of the writing in published books is generally quite good owing to th
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YackTrack Highlighted in Inc Magazine
robdiana via Regular Geek on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
YackTrack - Follow the Conversation!
In the current issue of Inc Magazine
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landon via DadHacker on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
I read a news story today (link) where some economists (or rather, analysts who focus on economists, which is a little like saying “con men who study charlatans”) speculate on the possibility of a zero percent prime rate from the Fed.
Aside from the obvious economic turmoil this would gen
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Trading Analog Dollars For Digital Pennies
Fred via A VC on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
Jeff Zucker, head of NBC Universal, was famously quoted earlier this year warning that the media industry had to work so "that we do not end up trading analog dollars for digital pennies."
It's a great line and an even better observation. But I think it's inevitable and it's going to happen no matter how hard they try to avoid it.
Analog and digital, it turns out, are p
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So what is going to happen to Sun?
(unknown author) via The Register on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
The new silicon valley parlour game
Comment Silicon Valley has a new parlour game: what's going to happen to Sun after the cuts? Rumours suggest it will merge with EMC, that HP or IBM will take it over, that Fujitsu will buy its hardware business, or even that the StorageTek storage business unit will be spun off. Do Sun's leaders want to be redeemed or to retire?…
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The Six Million Dollar LibC
(unknown author) via Coding Relic on Sat, 29 Nov. 2008
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This one took a long time to write, much more research than normal... ok I admit it: normally I just make stuff up, this one actually required research.
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