Google Dance
Google Weblog: “This month’s Google Dance has begun.” The site points to a fascinating article about Google’s infrastructure.
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Still powered by a contradiction in termsArchive for March, 2003
Linkdump
Those are some interesting links I found while browsing the Web in the last weeks (yes, I’m too busy to blog properly these days):
Technology and science:
- The Coad Letter
- A series of special reports written for business and technical leaders within the IT community. Topics which include test-driven development, modeling, and agile processes.
- Analysis: SQL Slammer
- A report on the SQL Slammer worm that infected the Internet in late January.
- Windows Server 2003: The Road To Gold
- A series of articles on the challenges of the Windows NT team at Microsoft.
- Swarm Intelligence: An Interview with Eric Bonabeau
- As the title says, an interview with a leader in the field of swarm intelligence.
- Shared Data, Diverse Applications
- “Generalise your data. Specialise your apps. Computing nirvana will follow.”
- The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
- A compilation of equivalent Linux resources for some Windows functionality; includes, amongst other things, whom to blame for the system problems.
- Internet’s Main Root Server Saturated By 98%: Should You Be Concerned?
- An interview with Duane Wessels about a study on the integrity of the root DNS servers.
- Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
- “For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.” — M. C. Escher.
- XP passwords rendered useless
- A way to circunvent Windows XP password protection using the Windows 2000 CD. Talk about “Trustworthy Computing”!
- ‘Supertasters’ diet raises cancer risk
- An article arguing that people with a stronger sense of taste are more susceptible to cancer.
Resources:
- Blackmask Online
- Thousands of online books.
- HyperDictionary
- A hyperlinked dictionary based on Webster on other freely available dictionaries. Interesting, albeit limited.
Entertainment:
- A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
- Interesting facts about words in a lot of different languages.
- Build the best paper airplane in the world
- Intructions and diagrams to build a cool paper airplane.
- Children of Dune
- The sequel to the Dune TV mini-series. The trailers are quite cool.
Other:
- Which Price is Right?
- An article about the problem of finding the right selling price of your product.
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Enough!
For the third time in less than two months, my hosting provider went haywire leaving the domain and all related services I use unavailable for almost a whole day. I know we’re in the middle of the Carnival, but three times is too much. As soon as I conclude certain negotiations, I will get out of this provider as quickly as I can.
Update: I should have guessed something else was wrong when I didn’t find a single e-mail in my inbox today from the addresses related to this domain. It looks like the server is just eating the received e-mails without issuing a single error message.
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Open source and documentation, continued
Some weeks ago, I wrote a bit about open source and documentation in agreement with a post by Shelley Powers in her blog. I got some interesting comments — in both my Portuguese and English blogs — but because of time couldn’t write more about the subject until now. In this follow-up, I decided to elaborate on those comments and expand them with some additional thoughts of my own.