Tuesday, June 29, 2010

help increase your h-index!

SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator phunny.... this gizmo makes scientific( compsci) publications for you! (or a friend) reminds me of the automatic complaint generator

Saturday, June 19, 2010

gov requests to google for data and data/site takedowns

Google are tracking gov requests for data and data/site takedowns http://www.google.com/governmentrequests - probably born out of the great firewall of China incident - interesting to see Australia is in the top 10 - more than all of Russia!

.....then again not that surprising....

google cli cool tool!!

Just installed the googlecl cli tool on FC12 with the FC13 .rpm file (http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/googlecl) ...and I made this post with it!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Chatroulette's Penis Problem: Solved

Chatroulette's Penis Problem Solved

Q:so what did you do when you graduated top of your class in AI after
all of those years of study?

A:I was hired by a web 2.0 startup company!

Q:What was your major project?

A:Developing bleeding edge software to spot coc7s,dic7s,knobs and wan7ing!

LOL put that on ya CV

A decade to forget - how Microsoft lost its mojo • Channel Register

A decade to forget - how Microsoft lost its mojo • Channel Register

IBM preps AIX 7.1 for autumn Power7 harvest • Channel Register

IBM preps AIX 7.1 for autumn Power7 harvest • Channel Register

How good is this Prezi

Playing to Learn? by Maria Andersen on Prezi

How good is this way of presenting!!!! it makes sense to me - I've never liked slide packs - I've been looking for something like this for months - it reminds me of the ABC beast files e.g. Best file:Google and I've always thought that was a great way to keep people engaged
I've been looking for a tool to do that

The tool Hans Rosling uses http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html is now open source and a great way to present data too

Thursday, June 10, 2010

cloverfield monsters

YouTube - Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters:

Air from the NYC subway or HVAC inflates these bag monsters - good idea and well executed

....more intrusiveness than negative graffiti eg http://symbollix.com however somewhat interesting!

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Internets live under the sea you see....

http://www.telegeography.com/product-info/map_cable/images/cable_map_2010_large.png

Asia seems to miss out a bit in places
https://xldb.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/East+Asia+Case+Study

I guess we should (as a people) worry more about food than internets ...or space ...or 4g iphones ...or DBS v12

Linux fast boot

Just looking for a place to put these links for a pet project Im working on

Over and above the n00by obvious stuff like disable unused services and devices ...

software to benchmark the boot
http://www.bootchart.org/

An article about it at LWN (parallelism and read ahead)
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

The read-ahead code
http://fedora.danny.cz/sreadahead/

Embedded solid-state
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWFy1RWSUts

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Apple's weak tech-fu | ZDNet

Apple's weak tech-fu | ZDNet

Creating an ASM duplicate database from a non-ASM database « Oracle DBA – Tips and Techniques

Creating an ASM duplicate database from a non-ASM database « Oracle DBA – Tips and Techniques

CORAID EtherDrive ATA-over-Ethernet ( SAN for Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Storage

CORAID EtherDrive: Ethernet SAN for Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Storage

10Gb Ethernet will be ubiquitous soon and this EtherDrive stuff has a great price/performance ratio

AIX has been able to boot iSCSI since v5 and support for NAS(ATA-over-Ethernet) has been in the Linux kernel circa. 2005

I'm mean, seriously when is storage going to `converge`?

Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right

Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right

Transition technology hybrids....
....A bit like that magic period when you could by a VCR/DVD combo!

Linux Logical Volume Manager Walkthrough – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Linux Logical Volume Manager Walkthrough – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

IBM Redbooks | SAP Applications on IBM PowerVM

IBM Redbooks | SAP Applications on IBM PowerVM
just putting it here so I can find it quickly....

IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing

This technology is a bit immature on PowerVM compared to say VMWare.

IBM AMS on PowerVM

Oracle on VMWare

Why do Oracle hate VMWare so? all this proprietary commercial licensed bullshit has to go...Viva la Revolution!


Support Position for Oracle Products Running on VMWare Virtualized Environments [ID 249212.1]

Modified 16-NOV-2007 Type ANNOUNCEMENT Status PUBLISHED

Purpose
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Explain to customers how Oracle supports our products when running on VMware

Scope & Application
----------------------
For Customers running Oracle products on VMware virtualized environments.
No limitation on use or distribution.


Support Status for VMware Virtualized Environments
--------------------------------------------------
Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized
environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products
on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide
support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or
can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware.

If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the
appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in
the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware
for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution
does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support,
including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.

If the problem is determined not to be a known Oracle issue, we will refer
the customer to VMware for support. When the customer can demonstrate
that the issue occurs when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume
support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation
if required.

NOTE: Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMWare, and use of
Oracle products in the RAC environment is also not supported.