Higgs boson spotted at LHC???

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/

Rumored that the LHC spotted the Higgs boson at 115-120GeV where theory predicted...

Lets see if this is true/verified in the coming weeks

Live Partition Mobility

Here's a demo I've done of a 5 min Live LPAR Mobility (think vmotion for POWER LPARs)

Its a running AIX 6.1 LPAR moved on the fly between 2 POWER7 frames: 5mins, not one lost ping!! (longest delay to any ping I got was ~78ms)

remote HMC LPM

(remote HMC - not both frames under the same HMC this time)

CentOS 5.6 get ext4

Centos 5.6 came out recently (not CentOS 6 - RH drip feed this stuff...)

2 points of interest

- ext4 filesystem
- php 5.3

RH is now a billion dollar company not bad for selling 'free' software

Couple of nice radiation dosage charts

Due to the log scale required to show this (or sound) its hard

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

XKCD have do a bossjob of it!!!

and to a lesser extent....

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/

does not really show the logarithmic nature as well as the little coloured boxes

nice azure v ec2 vs google app engine at stackexchange

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/64727/windows-azure-vs-amazon-ec2-vs-google-app-engine

Move over RRDtool?

Graphs look a little SPLUNK!-ish

http://graphite.wikidot.com/

Groklaw

....its over, SCO lost, even floating legal warships on M$ money for 8 years