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Semi-Realtime Satellite Desktop Backgrounds(russ.garrett.co.uk)
5 points by russss 17y ago|0 comments
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by russss 17y ago
I used to be in the unpleasant situation of having to carry around an iPhone (personal phone and email) and a Blackberry (work phone, email, on-call pages). One of the advantages of the Blackberry is that you can specify a filter for prio
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by russss 17y ago
The ACM just seem really underhand in general. They kept spamming me, through several email accounts, offering me membership. Even after I joined, they still continue to spam me. I don't think I'm going to renew my membership when it comes
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by russss 17y ago
These SSD streamers only hold the most popular 10-20% of Last.fm's content, so they are effectively just holding the bytes which are most likely to be streamed.
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by russss 17y ago
Run-of-the-mill caching proxies are no good in front of a distributed progressive streaming system such as this, because they would have to be modified to stream progressively and also to authenticate requests, which would increase the comp
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by russss 17y ago
It's not a complicated version of the same solution - it's cheaper version of the same solution. As expensive as flash is, it's still cheaper than the equivalent amount of RAM.
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by russss 17y ago
But you've got the additional bonus problem that users can skip Last.fm tracks at any time, so there's a pretty high probability that you won't need all that data anyway. (I used to work for Last.fm and we spent a fair amount of time workin
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by russss 17y ago
Last.fm does progressive streaming, not HTTP downloads. i.e. it reads 16KB of one track, sends it to one user, then 16KB of the next track, sends it to the next user, etc. Then after 1 second it goes through and does the whole thing again.
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SSD Streaming at Last.fm(blog.last.fm)
79 points by russss 17y ago|23 comments
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by russss 17y ago
This doesn't work with Safari, however.
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by russss 17y ago
All I meant with that point is that it's hard to get to the meat of the argument with so many clearly false statements flying around. I have yet to find any non-climatologists doing decent, unbiased, independent analysis of the climate chan
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by russss 17y ago
Your posts come across as overly defensive, which doesn't help your argument. I am not attacking you, yet you seem to believe I am. The UEA Climate Research Unit is a small research organization, consisting of maybe 20-30 climatologists at
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by russss 17y ago
I don't think Ben Goldacre is saying that valid criticism of climate change is bad. What he is saying is the vast majority of people who are criticizing climate change are doing so based on incorrect premises. This is why I personally have
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Open Hardware and Top-down Design(russ.garrett.co.uk)
2 points by russss 17y ago|0 comments
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Climate change? Well, we'll be dead by then(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by russss 17y ago|0 comments
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by russss 17y ago
Cloudera ( http://cloudera.com/ ) is doing pretty well. Canonical too, although it's not clear if they're actually making any money. And there are scores of other, smaller companies which are doing well.
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by russss 17y ago
Adding new breakers is one situation where live working happens quite a lot in a commercial setting. Power companies use a whole range of live working - the guys in helicopters are a minority, but there's a lot more mundane stuff done live:
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by russss 17y ago
It is perfectly possible to do safe work on live wiring, although health and safety regulations generally require that this is done only as a last resort. It does occur quite regularly, though, and as long as it's done properly the risk is
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by russss 17y ago
Works for me on Ubuntu - although I do install my nvidia drivers using Envy, so maybe it's that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy_(software)
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by russss 17y ago
Ubuntu has DKMS which automates this whole process. You just get a pause on bootup while it recompiles the driver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
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by russss 17y ago
Yeah, I'm a Linux sysadmin and I run Ubuntu at home, but I have a mac laptop because the hardware is nice and my experience with Linux on laptops is poor. Also, Omnigraffle is awesome. Maybe I should give Linux another go on the laptop, whe
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by russss 17y ago
I really wish Apple would take a leaf out of Google's book on this. I'm getting quite fed up with 70MB+ updates twice a month.
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by russss 17y ago
In a speech today, Gordon Brown had the following to say: "And from April next year ordnance survey will open up information about administrative boundaries, postcode areas and mid-scale mapping." So that seems a bit less tentative to me. W
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by russss 17y ago
Yeah, as someone who used Etherpad every week or two (as well as Wave), I'm really annoyed that Google has shut this down. Shame on Google and Etherpad.
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by russss 17y ago
No, that's not correct - you can see here that the route is being advertised through no less than 11 intermediate ISPs (and there will be more, that's just from one perspective on the internet): http://www.ris.ripe.net/cgi-bin/lg/index.cgi
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by russss 17y ago
It was a pretty shrewd move for Tuvalu too - $4m/year is about 30% of their GDP.
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by russss 17y ago
No, the DNS service is run by Google out of their datacenters, they're just renting 8.8.8.0/24 and 8.8.4.0/24 off Level3 because they're memorable numbers. (It's interesting because 4.2.2.[1-4] are run by Level3)
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by russss 17y ago
Countries can, and frequently do, sell the rights to their ccTLDs to third parties. For example, Verisign leases the rights to the .tv domain off the Tuvalu government for $50m/year.
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by russss 17y ago
No, it is the TLD (for Tonga). Somehow they hawked out their TLD A-record. (edit: turns out it's actually run by the ISP who operates the .to TLD)
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by russss 17y ago
That's because NoSQL was never meant to be a "movement". We were taking a trip to the Bay Area from London and we wanted to meet up with some of the guys who were working on scalable non-relational data stores. We planned a one-day conferen

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