links for 2007-11-15
Multics Internet Server
Bob Plankers
Spam Count Going Up… Something Changed…
A big thanks to the VMware Communities folks for picking my virtualization feed up on Planet V12n. Anything I put in the “Virtualization” category will appear over there now, too. I can usually tell when something like this happens, because my per-day comment spam totals jump. Akismet rules.
links for 2007-11-14
Meet Bento — Learn More Interesting personal database product from Filemaker.
VMware Referral Program
Some of you may have seen the VMware referral program pilot mentioned a few days ago on the VMTN Blog. You may have also seen the announcements that Fusion 1.1 is out. With all this news it’s a great time for me to announce that I’m part of the referral program pilot. If you are thinking about buying a copy of Workstation or Fusion please consider using my referral links. Not only are you getting excellent workstation virtualization products but you are also helping VMware test their referral program while helping me defray my hosting costs. As always, thank you for reading, commenting, linking to me, and overall making it fun to write on this blog.
links for 2007-11-13
Cable bill supporters got 12 times more than foes Dear Wisconsin residents, these people who were supposed to represent your interested just sold you out to cable companies for $3,000 to $100,000+. Good job choosing your representatives, you idiots (mine opposed the legislation). Oracle Unveils Oracle® VM This is ridiculous. I think I’m going to create a Xen-based BobVM, and only support software on that. pac-man? that’s pac-gentleman to you on [technabob] Steampunk Pac Man, heh. The Corner on National Review Online “Now all charged up with the spirit of scientific enquiry, we of course had to put an empty Budweiser bottle on the fire. We sat there watching to see if it would melt.” – one of my favorite …
Intel Releases the Xeon 5200 & 5400 Processors
Intel released their next generation of Xeon CPUs today: New to the Intel line-up of server processors are 15 server dual-core and quad-core 45nm Hi-k Intel Xeon processors. The 12 new quad-core chips boast clock speeds ranging from 2GHz up to 3.20GHz, with front side bus speeds (FSB) up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 12MB. The three new dual-core chips feature clock speeds of up to 3.40GHz, an FSB of up to 1600MHz, and cache sizes of 6MB. The 5400 series looks very attractive for smaller virtualization environments. Not only can you continue to get eight cores in a 1U or 2U server but with the addition of FlexMigration the CPUs are VMotion-compatible with older CPUs. This means I …
links for 2007-11-12
15 Hilarious Church Signs Bacon Salt “Everything should taste like bacon.”
History of LOLcats
If you like LOLcats you’ll probably enjoy this clip, from G4 (only 2:25 long):
links for 2007-11-10
Alex, Richard, Paul and Michael – Time to Change Your SSH Passwords Eat seafood responsibly with fishphone.org | Eric Cheng’s Journal Not having this information in a mobile format was a big drawback… now fixed. Awesome. Hollywood Writers Strike To Put Web Video On TV? This would be awesome — a friend’s band, Flame Shark, is part of the sound track. Overheard at Defrag – kentbrewster.com “I grew up in Detroit and I live in Oakland now. Where I’m from, ‘user’ is a bad word.” Classic. I want to go to Defrag next year. The Subjectivity of Wine – Daring Fireball “I’m biased, perhaps, but I don’t think you could fool beer connoisseurs similarly; there’s far less pretension in beer …
links for 2007-11-09
12 Surprising Implications of London’s Replacing New York as the World’s Financial Center | Currency Trading.net Ah, yes, the anti-foreigner, screw everybody approach that sums up our response to 9/11 is actually having consequences. The Old New Thing : Be clear with your antecedents when formulating your question Amen. Actually asking a question is something some people forget to do once they’ve rambled on for a while. Presentation Zen: Larry Lessig presents at TED: Nails it Turning a 60 minute presentation into 20 minutes is awesome. I need to do that with my VMware presentations.