Monthly Archives: September 2014

Blizzard’s ‘Project Titan’ is cancelled, because B…

Posted on September 23, 2014 by richard

Blizzard’s ‘Project Titan’ is cancelled, because Blizzard “struggled to make the game fun”. arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09…

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More drive info, this update via @Backblaze on “sp…

Posted on September 23, 2014 by richard

More drive info, this update via @backblaze on “spinning rust” drives: “Seagate 3TB drives are failing a lot more”. backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv…

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Only 2 remain in the SSD Endurance Experiment afte…

Posted on September 23, 2014 by richard

Only 2 remain in the SSD Endurance Experiment after 1.5PB of writes. As always, great info here. techreport.com/review/27062/t…

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Ray Kurzweil’s Reader app for the blind. Coming to…

Posted on September 23, 2014 by richard

Ray Kurzweil’s Reader app for the blind. Coming to Android soon too. knfbreader.com

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How Facebook Makes Mobile Work At Scale For All Ph…

Posted on September 22, 2014 by richard

How Facebook Makes Mobile Work At Scale For All Phones, On All Screens, On All Networks. highscalability.com/blog/2014/9/22… HT @highscal

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“Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computati…

Posted on September 22, 2014 by richard

“Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents” The complete book published in 2010 is now online. cs.ubc.ca/~poole/aibook/…

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Facebook’s “Lessons from Deploying MySQL GTID at S…

Posted on September 22, 2014 by richard

Facebook’s “Lessons from Deploying MySQL GTID at Scale” code.facebook.com/posts/15422735…

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VPS Secondary Storage offering now available as iS…

Posted on September 21, 2014 by richard

VPS Secondary Storage offering now available as iSCSI in Sydney & Canberra POPs. #NetPres More info & howto’s coming.

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RT @ezraklein: The population of the internet, in…

Posted on September 21, 2014 by richard

RT @ezraklein: The population of the internet, in one map: vox.com/xpress/2014/9/… http://t.co/U017Dne1a2

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Post Once, Publish Everywhere with your own Known…

Posted on September 21, 2014 by richard

Post Once, Publish Everywhere with your own Known Server as a VPS Appliance. withknown.com networkpresence.com.au/hosting/applia… #NetPres

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