Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software.
- Randall Leeds
"The libdispatch project consists of the user space implementation of the Grand Central Dispatch API as seen in Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard." Paraphrased: Bad-ass concurrency shit.
- Randall Leeds
Nice history of JSON, the "data interchange format we can believe in". Good discussion of the evolution of web documents, markup languages, and data interchange formats, the people behind them, their flaws and insights, etc. Lots of good information and entertaining.
- Randall Leeds
Amazon Kindle Terms of Service juxtaposed with Richard Stallman, Orwell, and Newsweek. Haunting quotes about the way ownership, fair use, and copyright are changing and/or challenged today.
- Randall Leeds
"Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money."
- Randall Leeds
Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license. The first public release includes implementations for clustering, classification, collaborative filtering and evolutionary programming.
- Randall Leeds
Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers.
- Randall Leeds
Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
- Randall Leeds
The ACLU politely requests that the Department of Defense stop referring to pretests as "low-level terrorism" on their training examinations.
- Randall Leeds