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26 December 2011

Computers

DevOps Borat twitter feed. Very funny

18 December 2011

Computers

LAN Party House

404 cats

14 December 2011

IPv6

Lots of info at the recent LISA. Bit of panic too

Arin IPv6 Wiki

Internet Society IPv6 Portal. This might move.

Hurricane Electric's Tunnel Broker

PPC Linux

Very happily, I guess because IBM is spending money, the PPC is coming back from the almost dead in terms of linux distros.

F16 will support PPC64. I even saw a presentation on Watson (a power 7 system) which talked about how F16 should be fully supported when it comes out.

F16 on an old system. Sounds painful.

And finally Ubuntu has moved back to having PPC builds. They don't work on any of my mac powerbooks completely, but, it's a start.

13 December 2011

Aircraft

Interesting article about AF447, complexity, and human response. Well worth reading as well as the referenced Popular Mechanics article.

04 December 2011

Android ARM development

From the ARM folks


Bruce O'Neel

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