2 month ago
deusx : Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You'r
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6 month ago
nelson : Choosing BOINC projects - Very thoughtful collection of distributed computing projects
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6 month ago
nelson : cpushare.com - P2P cycle sharing. Why didn't I think of that? Note the open order book with the lack of buy orders
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6 month ago
deusx : jkOnTheRun: I'm taking the web-only challenge. Are you in? - "A paradigm shift. A glimpse into what I expect we'll see in the future. Namely: a centralized heavy-duty box for the home, but lighter, portable web devices for the home's inhabitants."
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deusx : Tinselman: The Mother of All Demos - "Douglas Engelbart's whirling vision of the future; it was the first public use of a mouse, as well as examples of cutting, copying, pasting, teleconferencing, video conferencing, email, and... hypertext. It's just too damn much for 1968!"
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7 month ago
joshua : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage
bmilleare : Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage - Awesome write-up for preperation of persistent storage on AWS
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8 month ago
Simon Willison : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes. You can store a snapshot of a storage volume to S3 with a single API call, making backups trivial.
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes: good to hear how well baked this appears to be
bmilleare : Amazon takes EC2 to the next level with persistent storage volumes - This is potentially game-changing in the cloud computing dept.
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8 month ago
nelson : Commodity cloud hosting - Doug Cutting, one of the smartest engineers I've ever met, argues for the importance of non-proprietary cloud computing technologies
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deusx : Feld Thoughts: The Treadputer - "A few months ago, I told Ross that I wanted to integrate a computer workstation into a treadmill so that I would work while I ran."
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11 month ago
deusx : 10 Incredible Old Computer Ads - "What the heck is electronic mail?!"
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12 month ago
deusx : Jupiter Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A Jupiter Brain is a theoretical computing megastructure the size of a planet. Unlike a Matrioshka brain, a Jupiter Brain is optimized for minimum signal propagation delay, and so has a compact structure."
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deusx : Mark Bernstein: NeoVictorian 1: Civilization and its Discontents - "The short version: The Arts & Crafts movement failed in consumer goods, but it could succeed in software."
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15 month ago
deusx : Internet Archive: Computer Chronicles - "Hosted by Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles was the world's most popular television program on personal technology during the height of the personal computer revolution."
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15 month ago
plasticbag : Newsdesigner has linked to video from TED of awesome Microsoft photo-related exploratory semantic-ness... - Fascinated to see where this goes next. Would be amazing on the surface table...
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deusx : Alan Kay: The PC Must Be Revamped--Now - "in the last few years I've been asking computer scientists and programmers whether they've ever typed E-N-G-E-L-B-A-R-T into Google-and none of them have."
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22 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The Firefox computer - The Firefox computer: "The only thing I care about is that they run Firefox. That’s because my digital day is currently spent in the following apps: WordPress, Yahoo Mail, Bloglines, 30boxes and Google. And they all run perfectly well in Firefo
deusx : The Firefox computer ? Toni’s Garage - "I want a Firefox computer. A nice, sleek, solid state notebook with a big screen that you open up and it just runs Firefox"
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Core Duo chips are going to look rather stupid compared to the 80 core chips of the future that Intel has been talking about... - Massive parallelism is the word, apparently. Fascinating stuff.
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30 month ago
plasticbag : Paul Graham has written up his XTech keynote on 'Why Startups Condense in America' - Originally posted last month, I've just re-read it and the first thing in my head is that he doesn't pay attention to the unexpected benefits that the US has in terms of global media dominance, ready availability of cash and massive living space and natur
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Y! Local now supports microformats - or: why I haven't been blogging for the past few days
deusx : Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog - Blog Archive We Now Support Microformats - "Starting today, we're happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews."
plasticbag : Yahoo! Local / Maps now support Microformats - "Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews"
wearehugh : Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog » Blog Archive » We Now Support Microformats
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30 month ago
joshua : BumpTop Prototype - lovely UI interaction with 3d documents on a platform
plasticbag : BumpTop Prototype uses a more physically realistic desktop metaphor, while combining it with the affordances of paper - It's completely beautiful and totally insane. God knows whether this will be the metaphor for manipulating documents in a few years. I wouldn't be surprised if large chunks of this kind of interaction appear all over the place. Beautiful. Interesting.
jkottke : BumpTop is a prototype of a new desktop metaphor for computing, and a pretty damn intriging one at that - You've probably seen this by now, but if you haven't, you should. BumpTop is a prototype of a new desktop metaphor for computing, and a pretty damn intriging one at that.
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32 month ago
deusx : VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming - Blog Archive R&D Automation Taking Pre-orders for v2 Apple II Compact Flash / IDE Interface Card - "an impressive Apple II hardware add-on card he designed called the "CFFA" that enables any Apple II system to use a compact flash card, IBM MicroDrive, or IDE hard drive for storage."
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33 month ago
deusx : VintageComputing.com | Vintage Computing and Gaming - Blog Archive Anatomy of a Young Collector's Room - "It's a Polaroid photograph of one corner of my then "computer room" taken by myself somewhere around late 1994 or early 1995"
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33 month ago
kellan : The universe is just one big quantum computer - ..and you're all script kiddies! #
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Quantum computer works best switched off - And I quote: "A non-running computer produces fewer errors," says Hosten. Nice. Really really nice. Also funny.
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34 month ago
deusx : jwz - GLTerminal - "It's pretty sweet, though not as faithful a simulation of a CRT as Trevor Blackwell's fantastic Apple ][ screen saver (in xscreensaver)."
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