At This Monday's Apple Keynote? Help Us Liveblog "Apple has not responded to our requests to attend the WWDC keynote…" Really? Why would a company you stole from help you out? That's ballsy to even ask for press passes. I think it's safe to say that Gizmodo is no longer a quality source for Apple news.
Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership | TPMCafe "The Obama administration keeps saying BP is in charge because BP has the equipment and expertise necessary to do what's necessary. But under temporary receivership, BP would continue to have the equipment and expertise. The only difference: the firm would unambiguously be working in the public's interest. As it is now, BP continues to be responsible primarily to its shareholders, not to the American public. As a result, the public continues to worry that a private for-profit corporation is responsible for stopping a public tragedy." Ron Zappe, founder of Zapp's Potato Chips, dies of throat cancer at 67 | NOLA.com My friend Maitri linked to this, this is sad. Like …
xkcd: Worst-Case Scenario One of the reasons I continue to like xkcd is the continuous stream of trivia in it, like the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi. And the result is that thousands of people that have lived their lives in other regions of the U.S. and know nothing about the Mississippi will look it up and learn that the river switches its route to the Gulf from time to time. What other cartoon educates as much as it amuses? Sign up to Shape the Future of Broadband in America This testing device is interesting. However, I can't imagine why folks like AT&T wouldn't just take their QoS and make all traffic out of these things high-priority. Wikileaks …
Test My ISP is a new program from the FCC to measure the speeds people are getting from their ISPs: Together, the FCC and Samknows are setting out to provide US consumers with reliable and accurate statistics of their broadband connections. If you are interested in using one of our units to measure your home broadband connection, then please sign up below. You will get to play a part in changing the face of the American broadband industry and you also get a free high-speed wireless router! I think it’s great they’re doing something like this. My AT&T DSL connection never goes 6 Mbps, which is what I’m paying for (and want). However, it probably won’t be hard for the …
Mike Laverick of RTFM Education/TechTarget fame emailed some of us this morning to say that if you are one of the first 1000 people to take the VMware Site Recovery Manager survey three things will happen: 1. VMware will gain some information about who is and isn’t using SRM, and how they are or aren’t using it. This is important, because surveys like this are how VMware product teams gather information about what customers want to see in upcoming releases. It’s also important if you aren’t using SRM, because it helps tell them that and why. 2. You’ll get a free PDF copy of Mike Laverick’s book “Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0.” The book is the only SRM book …
Behold the Transformation – Hacked IRL- Culture Jamming Graffiti I miss Mitch Hedberg.
Movin' Meat: Vivid language New blog I'm reading. Good stuff. "He reviewed the film on line, and advised me that if they wanted to wait, he could do it much later in the evening, or I could just do it. I'm generally game, and asked if he had any tips. 'Sure,' says he, 'you need to put her under — deeply — and basically recreate the injury. Don't be wimpy about it: you have to go medieval on her. There'll be a nasty crunch as you complete the ulnar fracture; don't worry about that. Make sure you have the parents sitting down or out of the room. But if you can bend the fracture site all the way back past …
Why am I still buying physical servers? 1. Services that require specialized internal hardware. Some of our applications require internal PCIe cards for FAX capabilities. One even requires a modem. It might be possible to virtualize these things using VMDirectPath, but that breaks VMotion and we really like VMotion. I wish application designers would use cloud-based services for these things, like an Internet-based FAX provider or emailing PDFs. In the modem case, I wish they’d learn how this new-fangled Internet thing works. 2. Services that require specialized external hardware. USB dongles will be the death of me. Applications that keep their licenses on a USB dongle? We’ve got some. Application that has a USB serial dongle for talking to the …
Listen To House – Hacked IRL- Culture Jamming Graffiti Hehe, interesting blog. Safe for work! Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km So these Chinese physicists were able to communicate over 10 miles using quantum entanglement. That's pretty cool. At this rate, in a few years I can go live on Mars and you guys can still talk with me. Schneier on Security: Scene from an Airport "TSA Officer: Don't worry. No one will notice. This isn't the sort of job that rewards competence, you know."
I, Lobot: A Day In The Life of Lando Calrissian’s Assistant "1:45 p.m: Organize Mr. Calrissian’s sexual harassment lawsuits into one lump sum settlement." The Methane Midden: Epic Shit & Jean Pain Composting « One Straw: Be The Change My home compost pile reached seriously high temperatures recently, and this link from Lifehacker hits home for me. There are some farms in Wisconsin and Minnesota that use their manure digesters as heat and methane production sites, just like this guy is using his compost pile. Very cool.
