Category: Technology
Hadoop
A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes […]
Read MoreZenworks Unattended Windows Upgrade
I’d been looking at how to upgrade our Windows 2000 machines to XP at work recently, without losing all the data on them. We would normally just reimage them, and put up with the lost data, but that seemed awfully heavy handed. Nobody on the web seemed to have detailed […]
Read MoreDeforming a character?
During my evening ramble down the overgrown alleyway of what we call the information superhighway, I stumbled across Elliott Backs commentary on the ridiculousness of some of the suggestions on Ask.com. Curious, I carefully massaged the keybaord in such a manner that would provide a suggestion similar to the ones […]
Read MoreArmadillo misses by inches
Armadillo Aerospace and their Mod-1 lander miss out on the X Prize by mere fractions. The slight oscillation slowly amplified, and unfortunately during landing the sideways motion caused it to tip over. So close, yet so far. Maybe second time round.
Read MoreThe Day The Routers Died…
The Secret Working Group of RIPE 55 find another memorable way to summarize the event 🙂 And for those who want the lyrics… grab the POEM-RIPE55-SONG object… whois -h whois.ripe.net POEM-RIPE55-SONG
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