Monthly Archives: June 2011

Probabilities are fun. If some outcome of the chaos around us depends on events A, B and C, the probability of the outcome is the product of the probablities of events A, B, and C happening. P(X) = P(A) P(B) … Continue reading →

“Oracle This site is experiencing technical difficulty. We are aware of the issue and are working as quick as possible to correct the issue. Please try again in a few moments. “ Yeah, right. Apache is working on having the … Continue reading →

The FCC’s 15th Annual Mobile Wireless Competition Report is out and it has this gem: Look at that. Mobile Internet Access subscriptions doubled in 2009.

I love messy desktops. I can find anything if I have a search widget and all the current stuff on the top of the piles. The many variations of the GNU/Linux desktop are no problem at all until they become … Continue reading →

A security vulnerability at Groupon was discovered by a fellow using Google to search for database stuff. People are leaving SQL database dumps where the web servers can share them with the world … Talk about leaving the door open. … Continue reading →

“The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, … Continue reading →

Tilera – 6200 CoreMarks per watt ARM – Tegra2 – 2933 Atom – 1131 Xeon – 988 The message is clear, Tilera is more energy efficient than those other processors. This should matter when electrical power comes from fossil fuels, … Continue reading →

If you have to reinstall the OS of your PC to keep it running, consider installing GNU/Linux to stop the foolishness. “Microsoft is advising users to reinstall Windows if they happen to be unfortunate enough to get hit by a … Continue reading →

We were told that, once upon a time, “7” was shipped on an average of 7 PCs per second. Growth of “7” is about 1% per month. On 1400 million PCs, that’s about 14 million PCs shipping with “7” per … Continue reading →

I was surprised to see Brazil in the list of systems compromised by “Anonymous” recently. To demonstrate the compromise, /etc/passwd from some systems was published. GNU/Linux has a simple and reliable system of authentication which should prevent access to that … Continue reading →

When a government has to implement a solution from M$ in a hurry, you know something is wrong. They had to combine all kinds of disparate units into a whole and used facilities in “7” to do that. They had … Continue reading →