From an email I just got from the Twitter folks:
Starling Goes Open Source
Twitter developed a distributed queue server to route vast numbers
of messages and we named it Starling. Last month, Starling was
released as open source. In addition to giving back to the open
source community, Starling improves as the open source community
makes enhancements and upgrades.
Awesome! Another [...]
I felt all responsible for having whole-disk encryption on my laptop, but sadly that’s defeatable:
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I think the most awesome part about this video was finding it via a twitter from my boss:
Part of me thinks this is flamebait, but even if that’s the case, I feel I can’t ignore it. This guy is a fellow TriLUG member.
The post linked to above essentially makes the argument that Obama is a segregationist (earlier posts on that blog have called him a racist) because his home church has a [...]
Ahhhh bitrot. We’ll see if Debian moves on this or not:
On 2006-09-04 tech@mediaforest.net wrote:
> I really don’t understand why latin1_swedish_ci is used as default instead of
> latin1_general_ci which is “general” as its name says…
Backwards compatibility with older mysql versions.
Leaving Facebook is surprisingly difficult:
Facebook’s quiet archiving of information from deactivated accounts has increased concerns about the network’s potential abuse of private data, especially in the wake of its fumbled Beacon advertising feature.
Thanks Sarah.
Muckraker | Talking Points Memo | Mukasey to Muckraker: Get Press Releases off The Website
The “short answer,” Mukasey replied, is “I’m not aware with how the distribution of press releases is arrived at. I do know that all the press releases should be on our website. So they should be generally available.” Translation: we can [...]
A coworker just said, “There’s been a Bush or a Clinton in the White House my entire life,” and it took me a moment to remember that H.W. Bush was VP when I was born. Suddenly I have a fresh understanding of my own support for Obama.
Can we please agree that Clinton is the candidate [...]
I know I’m a little late with this, but… the cynic in me didn’t stand a chance against this video:
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