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Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for June
Here's the top ten shows on IT Conversations for June: Episode Nine - StackOverflow (Rating: 3.28)Joel and Jeff discuss Apple's WWDC (and the correct pronunciation of OS X), the use of JavaScript on modern web sites, affiliate programs, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 14, 2008 4:00 PM
Understanding the Net
Doc Searls must have spent some of his convalescence deep in thought. His recent essay Saving the Net III: Understanding its Frames is a great piece on how we understand and don't understand the Net. This is a long... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 9, 2008 9:47 AM
Top Ten Stories on Technometria Last Month
It's funny to me which stories and posts seem to take off and which don't. Sometimes when I'm writing a post I just know that it's going to get traction, but most of the time, it's hit or miss.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 1, 2008 9:18 PM
EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems
Rich Wolski from University of California, Santa Barbara is speaking about an open source implementation of cloud computing that has an interface compatible with Amazon's EC2 called Eucalyptus. Rich does research on grid computing. He's been looking for the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 24, 2008 11:05 AM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for April 2008
In doing this month's top ten for IT Conversations, noticed two things: First, since Doug put in our own code for ratings, the number of ratings per show is way up. I think with the new homepage design (oops!... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 7, 2008 8:31 AM
How the iPhone is Changing the Wireless Industry
Apple iPhone(click to enlarge) The latest issue of Wired Magazine has a great article on the iPhone: The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry. Very interesting behind the scenes details and analysis. Here's the summary:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 10, 2008 8:46 AM
The State of FOSS in Utah
Clint Savage was the speaker at tonight's PLUG meeting. Clint is the founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation. UTOSF was the power behind the recent Utah Open Source Conference. Clint ran down a long list of activities that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 14, 2007 8:29 PM
November PLUG on the State of FOSS in Utah
The Provo Linux User's Group meeting for November will be on the 14th at 7:30pm. Omniture is hosting, so head on over to Canyon Park Technology Center. I'm going to try to make it. Here's the announcement: This is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 9, 2007 11:00 AM
VMWare Fusion Clock Synchronization
When you install Linux in Fusion, make sure you install the tools. But just installing them isn't enough. Clock synchronization is turned off by default, so you need to start up the tools interface: sudo /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox Then click the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 25, 2007 6:36 PM
Starting a High Tech Business: Get a Clubhouse
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx (nothing to see there yet). As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the third installment. You... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 25, 2007 8:34 AM
What Should I Buy? Parallels or Fusion?
InfoWorld asked me to do a head-to-head review of Parallels and Fusion. That review appeared today. As a frequent user of both virtualization packages, I really enjoyed this review since it gave me an excuse to dig deep on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 22, 2007 3:02 PM
Think Similarly
This post at CrunchGear showing a 1989 Apple ad encouraging people to "think different" by challenging the status quo, followed by a video about Apple not allowing third party apps on the iPhone touched a nerve following the most... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 1, 2007 8:41 AM
Installing Rails on Fedora
I'm building a virtual machine (VMWare flavor) for use with Rails development. After installing Fedora, there were a few things I had to do to get everything ready. I thought I'd take a minute and document them in one... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 21, 2007 3:43 PM
Bruce Perens: Innovation Goes Public
Bruce Perens speaks to UOSC(click to enlarge) Bruce Perens is here for the second keynote of the evening. I spoke to Bruce on IT Conversations last March when he was last in Utah to protest the Novell/Microsoft deal. Bruce... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 7:54 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for August 2007
At this morning's CTO breakfast we talked about: Working from home--both from the standpoint of employees and employers. The experiences were all over the map--positive and negative. My experience converting physical machines to virtual machines. Booting DOS to recover... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 23, 2007 1:00 PM
P2V: How To Make a Physical Linux Box Into a Virtual Machine
Over the last four days, I've been exploring how to convert physical Linux boxes into virtual machines. VMWare has a tool for doing P2V conversions, as they're called, but as far as I can tell it only works for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 20, 2007 7:38 AM
Talking to Drew Major on Technometria
I just posted an interview Scott and I did with Drew Major, one of the founders of Novell and someone who's doing some very interesting things with video. Talking with Drew is really interesting because he has a long... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 7, 2007 6:18 PM
Open Source: Locked Into Uncertainty
I was browsing the ZDNet blogs this morning and saw this ad: This caught my eye and I clicked through. The ad takes you to case studies from Microsoft, including one showcasing the State of Illinois' email consolidation project.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 1, 2007 10:52 AM
Bandit's Cross Platform Selector
Novell asked me for a quote for this press release on the Bandit cross-platform card selector. I said: "For the vision of user-centric identity to thrive, ecosystems like information card selectors have to extend beyond a single operating system.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2007 2:25 PM
SSHFS Rocks
Can I just say, one more time for the record, that sshfs rocks. Mounting SSH-accessible file systems and then just using them like any other file system on your machine is ever-so convenient.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 12, 2007 7:28 PM
Security and Virtualization
I've been a big proponent of virtualization over the last couple of years, but I'd never stopped to think how it changed the nature of computer security. This week on the Technometria podcast, I interviewed Greg Ness about security... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 8, 2007 6:05 AM
Picotux
This picotux server is pretty cool. It's no bigger than an RJ45 jack. With power over Ethernet, you could deploy these anywhere you can run Cat 5 cable. I'm not sure why I love things like this, but I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 29, 2007 8:36 PM
Internet Identity Workshop 2007: Day Three
Tuesday dinner at the Monte Carlo in Mountain View(click to enlarge) If you're interested in following blogs about IIW2007, you can look for the iiw2007 tag on Technorati. First thing this morning (after picking up bagels) I went to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2007 1:32 PM
Theodore Bullock: HTTPerf is New and Improved
HTTPPerf is a tool for measuring Web service performance. The problem is it hadn't been updated since 2000, even though there had been numerous bug reports in the intervening seven years. Theodore Bullock, recently of the University of Calgary,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 4:16 PM
Yum Hangs
I have an instance of Fedora Core 6 in VMWare that would hang every time I ran yum, the auto-updater. The only way to kill it at that point was with a SIGKILL. Yesterday I got to the point... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 30, 2007 2:18 PM
Install the Parallels Tools!
Yesterday I did something in Parallels that I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't done before--it made a huge difference. I installed the Parallels tools in some guest OS's and compressed and defragmented their disks. The guest OS tools allow... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 12, 2007 4:39 PM
My Backup Script on OS X
It's sysadmin script day on Technometria. Earlier, I posted and explained by script for cleaning up unwanted files in Linux. Later this afternoon Kelly Flanagan asked me how I did backups, so I decided to clean up my backup... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 4, 2007 8:47 PM
Open Source Conversations
After an experiment of almost a year, Gigavox Media has decided to fold Open Source Conversations back in IT Conversations. Frankly this is a decision I've hoped for for some time. At the time Open Source Conversations was created,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 4, 2007 2:41 PM
Cleaning Up Unwanted Files in Linux
One of my grad students just went to remove some unwanted, automatically created files in his directory and accidentally deleted some things he wanted. I use a script to do clean ups to prevent these kinds of silly errors... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 4, 2007 10:41 AM
Bruce Perens on Software Patents
Last week Scott and I talked to Bruce Perens for the Technometria podcast. Bruce happened to be in Utah (although we did the interview over the phone) because of Brainshare. He wasn't in town to attend, but to protest... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 29, 2007 10:45 AM
AWS and Your Data Center: ETech 2007
Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, is talking about their Web services--specifically the outsourced data center products (S3, EC2, and SQS) that I've written about before and that were the subject of an IT Conversations interview I did with Doug Kaye... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 11:20 AM
O'Reilly Radar: ETech 2007
Technology, hackers, Gibson, alpha-something-or-other, future, etc., etc., etc. You've heard the O'Reilly schtick before. Tim knows you've heard it before, so he skipped it and give as a new quote from Dale Doherty: "You guys aren't pulling your weight... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 26, 2007 9:20 PM
Novell Demos InfoCard Selector for OS X and Linux
I just put a story up at Between the Lines about the InfoCard selector that Novell demo'd today at Brainshare. Very cool stuff.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2007 3:36 PM
Ara Howard: Ruby Queue
Ara T Howard(click to enlarge) Ara T Howard, a research associate at The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, is speaking about Ruby Queue, a tool for distributing the workload to nodes in a Linux cluster. He wanted... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 16, 2007 9:58 AM
Server Migration
I was reading Sam Curran's blog and he was talking about intelligent server migration. This, of course, is interesting to me since I just got done doing the same thing. Sam had a more difficult situation in that he... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2007 12:03 PM
Should Dell Pre-Load Linux?
On a page with the words "Dell recommends Windows Vista Business" emblazened at the top, Dell is running a survey on factory installed Linux for desktops and laptops. Let them know what you think.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 13, 2007 3:27 PM
Mounting OSX Directories in Parallels
I found this nifty trick for mounting OS X directories from Linux. This is handy when you're using Parallels on your machine and want to easily pass information back and forth. Parallels comes with a utility for doing this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2007 8:56 PM
Using VMWare Fusion: A First Look
Last Friday I wrote that VMWare had released the second beta of Fusion, their virtual desktop for OS X. Over the weekend I took a little time to play around with it and had a few observations. Note that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2007 3:02 PM
VMWare Releases Beta Desktop Virtualization for OS X
VMWare announced the release of Beta 2 for the OS X version of VMWare Desktop, codename Fusion, today. Fusion has a Cocoa-native interface that runs Windows apps side-by-side with OS X windows. Parallels has recently released a similar feature... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 2, 2007 4:18 PM
Expose, Dock, USB, and EyeTV Weirdness
Today Expose stopped working. I also noticed that the Dock magnification didn't work (I normally hide the Dock) and the submenus under the Apple in the top-left corner wouldn't open. First I restarted the Dock. No joy, so I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 10, 2007 11:19 PM
Funding Public Radio (and ITC) with VRM
In a post at Linux Journal about identity and VRM, Doc Searls says that rather than boil the VRM ocean, he would rather pick a specific problem. Beyond cash for goods or services, I would like the option of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2007 10:04 PM
Detailed Windows Vista Review
Update: See my cheatsheet on Windows Vista Buying Advice for the easy answer of what you need to buy. Have you been wondering just exactly what Window's Vista is and when to upgrade? The most detailed review I've found... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2007 10:16 AM
Top Ten Shows on IT Conversations for December 2006
Here are the top ten most popular shows on IT Conversations for December by downloads: Tim O'Reilly's O'Reilly Radar from the MySQL conference Steven Levy - How the iPod Shuffles Culture Alistair Cockburn - Redefining Software Engineering Emerging Telephony... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 5, 2007 2:29 PM
Linux Laptop
What's the best laptop for running Linux? I want the Wi-Fi to work, the thing to sleep reliably, and so on. In the past I've favored Thinkpads, but would willingly shift to something else if it had better behavior... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2006 9:44 AM
Composition as a Programming Activity
When I started programming, you had four choices on the IBM 370 system that the University of Idaho made available to students: Cobol, Fortran, Basic, and APL. I learned Fortran and Basic, avoided Cobol because it was for "business",... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 21, 2006 9:50 AM
Introducing User-Centric Identity
Doc Searls(click to enlarge) The Internet Identity Workshop (2006B) has begun. I flew in this morning and spent the time before the conference started shopping for things we need for snacks, etc. Today is not an unconference event--that starts tomorrow.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2006 6:00 PM
Cardinal: Ruby on Parrot
At the next Provo Linux User's Group meeting on the 8th of November, Kevin Tew will be presenting Cardinal, a Ruby implementation on Parrot that he's working on.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2006 9:48 PM
Emacs and Ruby
Jao at Programming Musings linked my my post on tools with a nice article on using powerful editors. Jao's post included a link to a screencast on using emacs and ruby by Marshall Vandegrift. I've been using emacs for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 23, 2006 3:15 PM
Remembering Ray Noorda
Ray Noorda had a great affect on high-tech in Utah. He took a small, ailing networking company and transformed it into a 12,000 person powerhouse. While he died this week, his struggle with Alzheimer's meant that he's been absent... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 12, 2006 6:00 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for September
Carl Youngblood told us of his experience as the sole technical person in a small construction loan wholesaling company. He's building a Rails application to automate the process and using an Indian outsourcing company to do much of the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2006 2:40 PM
Using Parallels to Simplify System Admin Tasks
One of the things I was most excited about with my MacBook Pro was the ability to run Parallels. People ask "if you like OS X so much why are you excited to be able to run other OSs?"... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 19, 2006 10:48 AM
Trusting Steve Gillmor
One of my favorite shows on IT Conversations was the Gillmor Gang. I say "was" because Steve's show hasn't been on IT Conversations for quite some time. That doesn't mean it's dead, however...The Gillmor Gang lives on at Podshow.com.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 25, 2006 8:43 PM
Identity Open Space and DIDW Event: Register Now!
We're doing an identity open space on Monday Sept. 11, 2006 in Santa Clara in conjunction with Digital ID World. DIDW starts Monday afternoon and we're going to do 3/4's of a day of open space beforehand to talk... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 11, 2006 12:00 PM
Changing Linux Screen Resolution In Parallels
I've had parallels running now for some time on my MacBook Pro and it's really nice to be able to fire up Windows or Linux when needed. I have a feeling this is going to come in real handy... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 1, 2006 10:37 PM
Novell's Bandit
Novell announced the Bandit project yesterday. Bandit open-sources key identity management technologies and creates projects for extending them. From the press release: The Bandit project is focused on delivering a single, consistent experience of digital identity and includes several... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2006 10:43 AM
May CTO Breakfast Report
We spent a good deal of time talking about offsite backup and things like Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk is a application for Windows, OSX, and Linux that uses Amazon's S3 as the storage substrate. Bruce brought up Verisign's PIP,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 19, 2006 9:48 AM
Rocketboom
Amanda Congdon(click to enlarge) I went to Amanda Congdon's plenary session at the end of Syndicate. She's the host of Rocketboom, a videoblog that deals with serious and not so serious news. I've heard of Rocketboom, but hadn't seen it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2006 3:56 PM
April CTO Breakfast Report
Today we did something different at the CTO breakfast and brought a projector for 5 minute lightening demos. Nathan Conger from Novell went first and showed the new SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop. We saw Beta 10. This is available... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2006 9:47 AM
Kim Clark on Modularity
I attended a UTC (formerly UITA) breakfast this morning where Kim Clark, President of BYU Idaho and former Dean of the Harvard Business School, was the featured speaker. (photos) Pres. Clark talked about harnessing the power of modularity. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 26, 2006 2:01 PM
Tom Adelstein and Government IT
This brings back some very unpleasant memories: I would characterize the people involved in these type of organizations as nasty bureaucrats. I have never met one of them who cared about the people they serve. The ones I have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 31, 2006 7:57 PM
March CTO Breakfast Report
This morning's CTO breakfast had around 30 people in attendance. As always, the conversations was geeky and varied. Here are a few things I took notes on. We had a discussion of Ruby and how it's always at the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 30, 2006 2:42 PM
Alex Russell on Comet: Beyond AJAX (ETech 2006)
Alex Russell, who works at JotSpot and did the DOJO Toolkit for JavaScript is talking about Comet and low latency data to and from browsers (slides). The subtitle is "after AJAX." The goal is responsiveness. AJAX gives you half... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 8, 2006 4:14 PM
Opening Session (ETech 2006)
Tim O'Reilly is giving his traditional "O'Reilly Radar" talk. Alternately titles: Following the Alpha Geeks. What to pay attention to: Technology on track with long term trend Technology is disruptive Technology uptake is accelerating Technology is grassroots--bottom up It... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 6, 2006 9:37 PM
February CTO Breakfast Report
This morning's CTO breakfast was well attended (about 30 people) with good discussion. Here are some of the things we talked about. I started out mentioning that Hillarie Orman was on a panel at Demo and asking for a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 23, 2006 1:16 PM
JavaSchools, Scheme, and Sin
Joel Spolsky has a great essay on the perils of JavaSchools, those CS programs that adopt Java (or .Net, to be fair) because it is easy for students to learn. In it, he sings the praises of learning Scheme... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 8, 2006 10:49 AM
CTO Breakfast Report
Today's CTO Breakfast was a lot of fun. There were about 30 people there. I was afraid that with the day change we'd have fewer people, but not so. Any more and we'll have to get a bigger room.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2006 11:22 AM
Wanted: Linux Developer
Ken Knapton at Content Watch is looking for a developer with Linux roots. Here's a list of the skills required: In-depth understanding of Linux operating system and development practices Demonstrable experience developing Java and/or C++ applications 3-5 years of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 26, 2006 8:24 AM
DarwinPorts is Hot
It seems like every semester something happens that causes me to do a systems scramble right before things get going. This year, we decided to move all our Web offerings in the ECLab onto our new XServe over Christmas... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 6, 2006 11:45 AM
Virtualization Testbed
Suppose you had a couple of quad processor boxes with 16Gb of RAM each attached to a 1Tb SAN and enough VMWare ESX licenses to do whatever you wanted on the platform. What would you do? We're wrapping up... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 3, 2006 3:14 PM
Winer Nails It
This is so true: If the people promoting an idea say nasty things about people who differ with them, and if they have to take their swipes anonymously, they must not have a lot to say that's substantial, and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2005 7:03 PM
Computers That Control You
Commenting on my piece yesterday about TPM (trusted platform module) and computers that control you rather than the other way around, Jon Udell says: Presumably no controls take effect unless the TPM is not merely activated by the operating... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 16, 2005 4:51 PM
SSH Tricks
Linux Journal has a nice article on Eleven SSH Tricks. These, of course, work on OS X as well. If you're an OS X user, you may not be all that interested in the first one, X11 forwarding, but... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 12, 2005 9:57 AM
Novell's New CTO
I'd have done it for half that.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2005 3:36 PM
Flushing the 'Net Down the Tubes
Doc Searls has written a brilliant piece framing the battle for the 'Net at Linux Journal. The piece is long, but if you take the time to read just one essay on the 'Net and the politics surrounding it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 16, 2005 3:46 PM
Ben Galbraith at UVLUG
Ben Galbraith will be speaking at the Utah Valley Linux Users Gpoup meeting next Saturday at 2pm. Ben's a good speaker and I'm sure this will be a great presentation. He's competing with the BYU/Utah game for audience though.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 12, 2005 2:52 PM
Using VLC to Create iPod Ready Video
A few days ago I wrote about using VLC to turn MPEG2 video from the Tivo into something that will work on your iPod. I had some funny problems with the aspect ratio and the GUI-based approach is fine... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 1, 2005 8:56 PM
XQuery Apache Module
From Freshmeat: Native XmlDB Query Daemon is a client-server version of the Sleepycat native XML database deployed as an Apache module. The client is a pure Java API, supporting XQuery, XPath, and an Xml:DB API layer. It comes with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 9, 2005 9:53 AM
Virtualize Everything
I had a good visit to IBM's Executive Briefing Center in Raleigh yesterday. I was there to learn about data centers, power, blades and virtualization. I've put some of my notes on data center power requirements at Between the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 8, 2005 11:28 AM
August's Most Popular
For the month of August, the following were the top three blog posts on Technometria (along with page views): BlackDog Linux Server1,485 Ruby on Rails (OSCON 2005 Tutorial) 1,431 How to Start a Blog 1,410 The Blackdog Linux post... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 1, 2005 6:44 PM
First Day of School
Classes start today at BYU. I actually teach on Tuesday and Thursday, so I've got another day yet. I'm teaching a class on programming language design (using Scheme) and large scale distributed system design. I've changed the text for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 29, 2005 8:19 AM
GTalk and the Google Identity Strategy
I just put up a piece at Between the Lines on Google's identity strategy and how GTalk plays into that. If you're an OS X user, GTalk works with iChat. If you've already got a GMail ID, you just... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 26, 2005 2:41 PM
Linux on the Desktop (OSCON 2005)
Asa Dotzler wrote an essay a while back called Linux Not Ready for the Desktop. It was controversial enough (surprise) that Nat asked him to come present at OSCON. Here are his main points: For regular people to see... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 5, 2005 10:19 AM
Peter Yared on Building Web 2.0 Applications (OSCON 2005)
I went to Peter Yared's talk this afternoon on rapidly building Web 2.0 applications. Peter's the CTO of ActiveGrid, a company and an open source project. Sun, J2EE, and Oracle powered Web 1.0. Web 2.0 is powered by LAMP.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2005 4:16 PM
Open Source Software at Yahoo!
Jeremy Zawodny works for Yahoo! and knows MySql inside-out. He's speaking about open source and Yahoo! There are several reasons Yahoo! uses open source: Flexibility - Yahoo! customizes lots of OSS for its needs Documentation is better in open... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2005 12:09 PM
Testing as the Open Source Killer App
Kim Polece, from SpikeSource, is talking about software testing in open source software. She starts by talking about the architecture of participation. This architecture is characterized by: Commoditization of software Network-enabled collaboration Software customizability and the shift from an... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2005 12:04 PM
O'Reilly Radar (OSCON 2005)
Tim O'Reilly's giving the traditional O'Reilly Radar, a talk from Tim about what he sees coming down the pike and the "faint signals of the future" along with Nat Torkington, the conference chair. One of the things that was... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 3, 2005 11:55 AM
Hearing Damian Conway in Provo
Damian Conway (who's tutorial was just described) is an excellent speaker. I've never heard him give a presentation I didn't really enjoy. While he's in the US, one of his stops is Provo Utah and he'll be speaking to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2005 5:55 PM
BlackDog Linux Server
These USB-powered, deck-of-card-sized Linux servers from BlackDog look pretty cool. I'm not sure what I'd do with one, but I want it anyway. The Web site's down until Aug 8th, but they had an ad in Make magazine.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 29, 2005 2:52 PM
Tiger Update
I upgraded to Tiger yesterday. I knew I was going to be traveling and its always more thrilling to update right before a big trip. I did the smae thing with Panther. Go figure. I used Synchronize Pro to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2005 6:53 PM
Virutal Machines and Software Development
Joel Spolsky talks about how his company uses virtual machines as part of their software development process. He gives several examples of how they use it at Fog Creek: Here's an example. The first thing that FogBugz Setup does... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 3, 2005 2:26 PM
Moving Netware Customers to Linux
The InfoWorld Test Center has reviews Novell OES, the product aimed at bring Netware customers to Linux and introducing Linux customers to Netware. This is a product Novell has needed for five years now. I hope they're not too... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2005 11:35 AM
Ubuntu: A New Linux Ditro
I wrote about Unbuntu a new Linux distro from Mark Shutleworth over at Between the Lines a few days ago and pointed to some things Doc Searls is saying about it. This morning, Sam Ruby posted about getting Ubuntu... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 22, 2005 11:29 AM
VMWare Performance on Linux
Harsh, one of my students, has posted some initial results for Linux performance on VMWare ESX. The inital results show better IO throughput for Linux on VMWare at load than for Windows. There's still much to do, but this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 7, 2005 8:16 AM
Life Hacks Live
Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann (click to enlarge) Danny O'Brien offers a recap from last year (as bumper stickers): Hackers love plaintext My other app is in ~/bin: hackers use scripts Super prolific geeks do it in public with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2005 12:52 PM
Remote Babysitting and Network Remixing
Nikolaj Nyholm, on Remixing the Network, tells the story of using Skype and Remote Desktop Connection to talk to his son while playing a game of Pippi Longstocking with him from thousands of miles away. He said it was... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2005 12:07 PM
Hacking the iPod: Clicks Give Away the Code
Showing just how hard it is to protect any data, once it's in digital form and widely distributed, Nils Schneider, a 17-year-old computer science student from Germany, reverse engineered the code to the iPod bootloader by encoding it into... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 7, 2005 2:13 PM
SCO and Canopy
Yesterrday, the judge in the SCO vs IBM lawsuit refused to dismiss it, but still took it to SCO for failing to produce the evidence they have been claiming to have. Although U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball didn't grant... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 11, 2005 7:55 AM
Performance Monitoring on VMWare ESX
I met with a Systems Engineer from VMWare this afternoon. Some of my students are working on a performance study of VMWare and so I took the opportunity to pick his brain on how to get performance data from... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 26, 2005 2:55 PM
OSBC2005: A New Twist
Matt Asay, cofounder of the Open Source Business Conference, writes that he's "reclaiming the conference from the sponsors:" This year, the Open Source Business Conference has made a conscious decision to seek less sponsorship money. Our goal is to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 21, 2004 7:42 AM
Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead
A Wired article today has the bold headline Hollywood Wants BitTorrent Dead. In the United States and the United Kingdom, the Motion Picture Association of America, the main lobbying arm of U.S. film studios, filed civil lawsuits against more... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 15, 2004 7:49 PM