Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
19dec2007
Duke Nukem Forever, OMG a trailer has been released!!!
How to really bury a mainframe, “On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe Betelgeuse by holding a New Orleans style jazz funeral.”
Beowulf review in verse (!), by Dana Stevens.
Mr Highwayman
please don’t block the road
Puh hee hee
ple-hease don’t block the road
— Robert Johnson, Terraplane Blues
GSK is a portable framework for writing flexible servers and clients in C. It includes builtin support for HTTP and DNS as well as base 64, hashing functions, lowlevel network information (like ifconfig), efficient buffering, abstract socket i/o, and abstract datagram sockets.
Comparative Planetology: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson at BLDG BLOG.
In a way I wish that Moore’s Law would grind to a halt and we could get back to doing computer science. — Joe Gregorio
YAP6 Operator: Negated Operators, by Adriano Ferreira.
CouchDB Performance, defended by Damien Katz.
FamSpam, a mailing list for each family. Cool idea and great naming.
Ida Belle, don’t cry, this time
If you cry about a nickel, you’ll die for a dime
She wouldn’t cry, but the money won’t mine I love the way you do
— Robert Johnson, Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Announcing NetBSD 4.0, “Major achievements in NetBSD 4.0 include support for version 3 of the Xen virtual machine monitor, Bluetooth, many new device drivers and embedded platforms based on ARM, PowerPC and MIPS CPUs.” It’s dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro “itojun” Hagino
Meet “tamarin-tracing”, the new Tamarin VM contributed to Mozilla, parts are written in Forth. Neat.
Code’s Worst Enemy, Steve Yegge says: “I believe that code weight wrecks projects and companies, that it forces rewrites after a certain size, and that smart teams will do everything in their power to keep their code base from becoming a mountain. Tools or no tools. That’s what I believe.” Full ack, really must read.
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