Openstreetmap is living proof that corporate intellectual property bullying works : "It is not about right or wrong, or if we could potentially prevail in a legal dispute or not. It is all about avoiding having to defend ourselves in the US in the first place" http://lists.openstreetmap.org/piperma...
Today I learned the hard way that 12V G4 halogen bulbs use either AC or DC. 12V AC on a 12V G4 LED during a few minutes results in a smelly burnt LED... So to replace an AC halogen bulb, use a G4 LED with a built-in rectifier !
Compare USA to Brazil to understand once and for all that "race" is not a biological fact but an entirely social construct:
http://www.reddit.com/r...#racism
This makes hungry for vatapa : while groundnut sauce is the nectar of the gods, vatapa is fancy American nectar of the gods will all options !
- Jean-Marc Liotier
Why does #iperf's reported MTU differ from the correct one, reported by other tools using Path MTU Discovery ? "Mysterious Transfer Unit"...
http://networkengineering.stac...#IPv4
Even more hilarious: at the moment those ways are actually unconnected in Openstreetmap : http://j.mp/YVBVgs ! But seriously, those surface=asphalt unclassified ways should be connected to each another through a surface=ground stretch.
- Jean-Marc Liotier
Facebook's Open Compute Project will give the world an "open" top-of-rack switch. Why aren't switches handled like Linux servers that just happen to have a lot of Ethernet ports ?
http://arstechnica.com/informa...