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Insane Coding: The Sorry State of Sound in Linux - http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007...
The sad tale of sound in Linux. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
interesting background, though much has since changed - Mike Chelen
It's true, much has changed, but not necessarily for the better. Pulseaudio _promises_ to fix various issues and become the standard Linux sound server ... but at the moment it's still a source of grief for many Ubuntu users (myself included). I've followed the evolution of Linux sound as an end-user since the OSS-only days, waiting, hoping, that it will stabilize - it hasn't happened yet. Linux distros seem to get lots of things right, and so it's puzzling why sound has been so consistently stuffed up. - Andrew Perry
Awesome: The Game Crafter Lets You Build And Sell Your Own Custom Board Games - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
DIY board games. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
grass!
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It tastes so much better than blackberry brambles. - Tracy
Yum ! Mooooo ! Yum ! - Andrew Perry
Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts - http://www.davidpashley.com/article...
Nice old post on writing bash shell scripts. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
Moving Beyond End-to-End Path Information to Optimize CDN Performance - http://highscalability.com/moving-...
coos bay to table
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after a hard day on the boat - Tracy
TheFunded publishes a plain vanilla term sheet for VCs | VentureBeat - http://deals.venturebeat.com/2009...
Called the “Plain Preferred Term Sheet,” the document (embedded below) was inspired by a recent debate sparked by entrepreneur Chris Dixon (co-founder of Hunch) and investor Fred Wilson, who have been seeking a way to simplify the complicated provisions that have crept into the average term sheet. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
Exploring OAuth-Protected APIs :: Drive-by Digressions - http://mojodna.net/2009...
OAuth proxy for those that use the command line. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
I hate you RRDTool. 19 character variable names? I hack your #defines and then you segfault. Why do you make me work around you?
Facebook, Hadoop, and Hive | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services - http://www.dbms2.com/2009...
Hadoop + Hive is like MapReduce + SQL. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
Product: Facebook's Cassandra - A Massive Distributed Store - http://highscalability.com/product...
braindump: NOSQL debrief - http://blog.oskarsson.nu/2009...
Slides and video for Voldemort, Cassandra, Dynomite, HBase, Hypertable, CouchDB, VPork, MongoDb - Tracy from Bookmarklet
EETimes.com - Paper-thin batteries set to arrive by 2010 - http://www.eetimes.com/showArt...
"As researchers rush to commercialize printable batteries that pattern organic semiconductors onto paper-thin, flexible substrates, a German team claims to be on-track for a 2010 product launch. " - Tracy from Bookmarklet
OCZ and Indilinx Collaborate On New SSD Garbage Collection Scheme - HotHardware - http://hothardware.com/News...
A common concern with the current crop of Solid State Drives is the performance penalty associated with block-rewriting. The flash memory used on today's SSDs is comprised of cells that usually contain 4KB pages that are arranged in blocks of 512KB. When a cell is unused, data can be written to it relatively quickly. But if a cell already contains some data--no matter how little, even if it fills only a single page in the block--the entire block must be re-written. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
an android reflects
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on the nature of introspection - Tracy
Asynchronous vs. Threaded Python - http://carlfk.blip.tv/file...
Asynchronous vs. Threaded Python
Elevated Datastore latency, error-rates, serving errors - Google App Engine Downtime Notify | Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/group...
ouch. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
Sleeping on it - how REM sleep boosts creative problem-solving : Not Exactly Rocket Science - http://scienceblogs.com/notrock...
I've solved a lot of bugs while sleeping. Now I just need a REM nap room at the office. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
"This method does not actually erase the data in the buffer, but it is named as if it did because it will most often be used in situations in which that might as well be the case." WTF?!
lying around on a sunny day
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FastBit: An Efficient Compressed Bitmap Index Technology | High Scalability - http://highscalability.com/fastbit...
"In a number of tests, we observed that our indexing scheme can answer range queries tens of times faster than the well-known indexing schemes." - Tracy from Bookmarklet
Using bitmap indices, range queries can be answered with bitwise logical operations. Since bitwise logical operations are generally very well supported by computer hardware, uncompressed bitmaps involving relatively smaller number of bitmaps can be efficiently answered. In most scientific applications, the number of bitmaps in a bitmap index is typically large, say more than 1000. This... more... - Tracy
Drop ACID and Think About Data | High Scalability - http://highscalability.com/drop-ac...
Quick overview of scalable infrastructure components. - Tracy from Bookmarklet
kaboom
QCon London 2009: Database projects to watch closely - http://highscalability.com/qcon-lo...
Time to join the denormalization revolution! - Tracy
Paper: Consensus Protocols: Paxos - http://highscalability.com/paper-c...
A combination of Paxos and two-phase commit by Jim Gray and Leslie Lamport http://research.microsoft.com/apps... - Sanjay Ghemawat
VegaWatt: Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel - http://www.inhabitat.com/2009...
Mashery: Untold Secrets Behind Managing an API - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
"Instead, invest the additional time in crafting a broader suite of web services that access data in ways that are most commonly used, so that the smallest possible payload can be returned." Minimization of payload size is not the only variable. Don't forget latency. Depending on response size, a denormalized response that doesn't require additional calls may be better. The best policy: It depends... - Tracy
twtr_gt_nthg_on_rrd rrd_format.h:#define DS_NAM_FMT "%19[a-zA-Z0-9_-]" rrd_format.h:#define DS_NAM_SIZE 20 I feel a disturbance in the source!
Consensus Protocols: Two-Phase Commit - http://hnr.dnsalias.net/wordpre...
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