Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'via:simon'

"Airport security lines can annoy passengers, but there is no evidence that they make flying any safer, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday." - i'm not exactly shocked at this news. it's security theater, nothing more, to assuage the easily impressed

security airlines research via:simon
december 2007 by sogrady

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Are Proprietary Databases Doomed? - Allan Packer's Weblog

Oracle's recent financials argue otherwise, and a great deal of the open source database adoption that i see is in complementary rather than directly competitive roles. still, interesting read.

databases opensource mysql postgresql oracle microsoft db2 via:simon
december 2007 by sogrady

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Malte Timmermann's Blog

nice to see

odf microsoft office openoffice staroffice sun via:simon
december 2007 by sogrady

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Mark Reinhold’s Blog

dvcs's continue to take over the world.

hg sun teamware openjdk dvcs mercurial via:simon
december 2007 by sogrady

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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Man in coma after mosquito bite

what a tragedy. i wonder why the incidence is so low (5 cases per year), when mosquitoes are absolutely everywhere.

easternequineencephalitis eee mosquito illness via:simon
october 2007 by sogrady

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How a non-Neutral ISP could work - Boing Boing

horrifying. simply horrifying.

control economics media netneutrality via:simon
september 2007 by sogrady

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New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux - Boing Boing

"I guess my next player won't be an iPod after all." - <sigh> same here

ipod drm linux compatibility corydoctorow via:simon apple competition dmca itunes
september 2007 by sogrady

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In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich - New York Times

one reason i'd be reluctant to ever relocate to CA. this sort of thing just isn't that important to me.

via:simon career money nytimes siliconvalley
august 2007 by sogrady

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Delaminate the Bastards!

amen

2007 antitrust business free freedom law net netneutrality davidweinberger via:Simon
july 2007 by sogrady

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Mark Reinhold’s Blog

charter for OpenJDK is here

openjdk java opensource markreinhold governance charter via:Simon
june 2007 by sogrady

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Money & Business: Ranking the Largest Airports - US News and World Report

this list is crap. any ranking that says DIA is a more miserable airport than Logan obviously hasn't traveled recently. and not ranking ORD the worst? asinine

airports rankings travel delays via:Simon
june 2007 by sogrady

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Private Islands for Sale or Rent

someday i'll have my own island

private island retirement via:Simon
june 2007 by sogrady

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ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives - Tech-Recipes.com

good summary of the benefits to ZFS

solaris zfs apple filesystems via:Simon
june 2007 by sogrady

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» Apple’s new kick-butt file system | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com

ZFS should be a very interesting addition to the Apple lineup, for many of the reasons mentioned here

zfs sun solaris apple osx via:Simon
april 2007 by sogrady

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News - Pidgin

another unfortunate example of the collateral damage that results from trademark enforcement

pidgin trademark gaim aol aim via:Simon
april 2007 by sogrady

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The Year of OpenSolaris

"it'll take a software management system overhaul to bring Solaris' software tools up to the level to which Linux users, administrators and developers have become accustomed." - yup, and as i told an audience thurs, it's the biggest drawback now

solaris packagemanagement via:Simon linux sysadmins conary
march 2007 by sogrady

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open...: Firefox Hits a Fourth

interesting gains for Firefox abroad

firefox opensource browser marketshare via:Simon
march 2007 by sogrady

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O'Reilly Radar > The Future of Web 2.0

cleverness defined

via:Simon nattorkington humor o'reilly Radar web2.0
march 2007 by sogrady

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BBC NEWS | Health | Poor sleep clouds moral judgement

this would explain a lot

via:Simon sleep deprivation decisionmaking
march 2007 by sogrady

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IBM - Changes in Cloudscape Availability and Support

interesting; cloudscape was never a huge business, but definitely had its fans - need to hear more to understand what the implications are for Derby

derby cloudscape via:Simon opensource database java apache
march 2007 by sogrady

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New OpenSolaris distribution for developers | The Register

a look at some of the new Solaris distribution options (there are too many, IMO); the goals of Express Developer Edition in particular are good, but the install fails on my Ultra 20

solaris opensolaris solarisexpress developer edition ultra20 via:Simon
march 2007 by sogrady

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GullFOSS

the online extensions bit is interesting; it's good in the sense that it borrows from the Firefox model, which has been an unqualified success, but you can bet Microsoft will counter with a security related story

oo.o microsoft extensions addons plugins onlineupdate repositories via:Simon
march 2007 by sogrady

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Tom Marble's Weblog

Tom's been an excellent ambassador for Java thus far - this role will suit him well

tommarble via:Simon ambassador java
february 2007 by sogrady

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GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? - Open Source, Free Software Foundation, Linux, General Public License, GPL2 - CRN

i concur with Simon - Stacy's piece on this is pretty balanced; personally, i'm worried - we still have fear of the GPL in many enterprise quarters, and the extended reach of this license is not likely to diminish that - particularly given Linus' objectio

phipps gplv3 gpl linux samba allison torvalds via:Simon
january 2007 by sogrady

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Duck survives two days in fridge

ducks are unbelievable; they swim around in the lake up in Evergreen in freezing temperatures all the time, which they can do because their blood has a natural antifreeze analog in it

ducks nature survival via:Simon
january 2007 by sogrady

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Help Wanted: Starwood Seeks Chief Beer Officer

finally, a job i'm qualified for

via:Simon starwood cbo c-level beer hotels
november 2006 by sogrady

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What A Terrorist Incident in Ancient Rome Can Teach Us - Pirates of the Mediterranean - New York Times

"For in the panicky aftermath of the attack, the Roman people made decisions that set them on the path to the destruction of their Constitution, their democracy and their liberty." - history, as always, has much to teach us

rome via:Simon terrorism politics privacy freedom democracy history
october 2006 by sogrady

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Clock - Online Alarm Clock - onlineclock.net

i can definitely see myself using this

via:Simon 2006 online application alarm clock
september 2006 by sogrady

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Diary for robilad

JCP thoughts and fixes

via:Simon jcp community java governance
july 2006 by sogrady

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ZFS on FUSE - Wizy Wiki

this is definitely a project to watch