FOXNews.com – Teacher Who Sought to 'Demolish' Tea Party Placed on Leave From School "Now, the source said, parents have become outraged by the severity of his political activism, and many have told the school board members that it has no place in a public school system." – Apparently it's not okay to have an opinion if you are a teacher, unless, of course, your opinion is the right one. Wikipedia discussion on deleting entry on David Miller – Harald Welte's Blog The interesting, perhaps ironic, thing about Wikipedia deciding to delete David Miller's page is that Wikipedia runs on Linux hosts. David Miller is a fundamental reason why Wikipedia can even exist the way it does. Yet they have …

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Last In – First Out: Bit by a Bug – Data loss Running Oracle on ZFS on Solaris 10, pre Update 8 Between this and the giant Joyent ZFS problems from a few years ago it makes me pretty wary of ZFS. It doesn't seem mature if it's losing data like this, and the problem was fixed in October of 2009. It's also pretty irresponsible of Sun to not publicize the matter more directly, and I'm sure that Oracle won't publicize it, either. Apple’s iPad Brings Easy Reading to the Blind « Forbes.com's Booked I've learned a lot about design from blind people I've known (as well as how service animals work). I've never played with VoiceOver, but it's on …

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Dell's New Tablet, the Streak, Earns Rave Review | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD Dude, what is up with tablets being named poorly? The STREAK? Like, get naked and run across a football field? Come on, people The Coming Carnage in the California Wine Industry – Vinography: A Wine Blog Interesting take on the glut of wine currently coming out of California, the general lack of sales, the impending destruction of a lot of wineries as a result, and the collateral damage (pun intended) that will happen to the banks financing those wineries. OpenSolaris leaders unnerved by Oracle silence – solaris, oracle, OpenSolaris – Good Gear Guide If I relied on Solaris or OpenSolaris right now I'd start assessing …

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Feedback on VMware Snapshots » Yellow Bricks If you're a VMware user I'd suggest filling out this survey about snapshots. The snapshot capabilities in vSphere are very limited, and having things like automatic expiration, quota management, etc. would be awesome. Dell reverses position on 3rd party drives | Standalone Sysadmin This is big news, though them not selling drive carriers will suck a bit. However, if you want to run SSDs in a machine and don't want to pay $1500 for a 50 GB SSD you can, once again… That's really why I'm looking forward to it. There doesn't seem to be a good third-party drive carrier option, perhaps the trick is just to order extra drives, take them out …

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Ivy Leaguers asked to lay off the iPad "According to the OIT, the issue is as follows: 'Network monitoring has shown that many iPad devices are causing a problem on the campus network. These devices are continuing to use an IP address they have been leased well beyond the time they should.'" It's standard behavior to blame everything else, and especially the new thing that just got released, and especially Apple devices, but I bet this will simply turn out to be some misconfiguration on the part of the IT folks.

HBO's 'Treme' creator David Simon explains it all for you | Treme – The HBO Series | News, Blogs and Reviews – NOLA.com A) I like that David Simon explains that not everything is going to be historically accurate, as they need to tell a good story, too. B) Hubig's Pies are my new favorite unhealthy breakfast while I'm in NOLA for Mardi Gras. Discovered them this year. C) I will not patronize HBO since they cancelled Deadwood, but I might have to find a way to check this show out.

The Flash Blog » Apple Slaps Developers In The Face This guy makes me like Adobe about 95% less. Perhaps a less standoffish approach would work better, like "we'd love to work with Apple to figure this out." Not "screw you, Apple." Tagxedo – Tag Cloud with Styles This is freaking cool — tag clouds are nice but until now it's been tough to build them.

Apple's iPad easier on airport screener's eyes – Yahoo! Finance This, alone, may be a big reason to get an iPad. Photo: More on selling your by-products: The Dum – (37signals) I always wondered how the Dum Dum mystery flavor came about. Philip Greenspun's Weblog » Thank you for being a Verizon customer I see Verizon is just as bad about being a telco as AT&T. Nevertheless, the one difference I'm looking forward to is actually being able to use my cell phone… AT&T may have the fastest 3G network, but you're only on it in northern Louisiana…. More “hotel door hacking” and lockcon « Blackbag, Barry’s weblog Bruce Schneier had this on his blog, it's a great demo of …

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