Noteworthy on the Web- Ming Thein | Photographer: May 10, Part 1: The Leica M-Monochrom reviewThe focus of Leica’s May 10 announcement landed in my hands a few days ago (not counting the X2, which was reviewed here); I suppose that Facebook post* might have done the trick. *I left a message on Andreas Kaufmann’s wall; score one for the power of social media.... […]Ming Thein
- DPReview News: Just Posted: Canon EOS 5D Mark III reviewJust Posted:Our Canon EOS 5D Mark III review. The 22.3MP 5D Mark III appears to offer similar specifications to 2008's 5D Mark II. However, sensor and processing developments, along with a host of user-interface revisions mean the Mark III is a much more capable camera. It also gains a... […]DPReview News
- Laughing Squid: Ben & Jerry’s Euphori-Lock, An Ice Cream Pint Combination LockBen & Jerry’s Euphori-Lock is a combination lock to keep other people out of your favorite pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The Euphori-Lock is available to purchase from Ben & Jerry’s online store. I’m terribly sorry but there is no “u” in “my pint”. Here’s more information... […]Rusty Blazenhoff
- jg's Ramblings: A Milestone Reached: CoDel is in Linux!The CoDel AQM algorithm by Kathie Nichols and Van Jacobson provides us with an essential missing tool to control queues properly. Eric Dumazet wrote the codel line discipline (based on a quick prototype by Dave Täht) which landed in net-next a week or two ago; yesterday, net-next was merged into the Linux... […]gettys
- Boing Boing: All-in-one slipcased edition of SandmanHere's some lovely news: DC is bringing out an all-ten-volumes-in-one-slipcase edition of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Gaiman writes, "I’m thrilled. You have no idea how long I’ve been asking DC to do one of these. (Er, about 16 years.)" The all-ten-volumes-in-one-slipcase-edition of SANDMAN Amazon pre-order page (via Wil Wheaton... […]Cory Doctorow
- The Register: Raspberry PiBare bones computing Review No review is ever written in isolation, absent from context. Usually, you can guess the reviewer's bias within a few paragraphs, and compensate accordingly. He hates LCD display quality, she dislikes proprietary software, they yearn for the days of full bandwidth vinyl. You get the idea.… […]The Register
- Living with IPv6: New Nmap w/ much improved IPv6Nmap has had rudimentary IPv6 support for a while, but, frankly, it's been pretty limited. A new version was just released today with much improved support.Some highlights:Raw packet supportOS detectionNeighbor Discovery pingNew IPv6 detection techniques (including some neat tricks with MLD and SLAAC).This... […]Living with IPv6
- bert hubert finally blogs: Random points of contentionI'm working on some high performance code which needs to scale to many, many CPUs. Against better judgement, I decided to use threads again, but to steer clear from anything that needs locking. I've previously found this to be very hard, and this time round proved to be no exception.... […]bert hubert (noreply@blogger.com)
- High Scalability: Pinterest Architecture Update - 18 Million Visitors, 10x Growth,12 Employees, 410 TB of DataThere has been an update on Pinterest: Pinterest growth driven by Amazon cloud scalability since our last post: A Short on the Pinterest Stack for Handling 3+ Million Users. With Pinterest we see a story very similar to that of Instagram. Huge growth, lots of users, lots of... […]Todd Hoff
- Ars Technica: Smartphone hijacking vulnerability affects AT&T, 47 other carriesCisco Systems' ASA 5500 series is one of many firewalls that drops data packets that contains invalid TCP sequence numbers. The feature leaks data that can be used to hijack connections. Cisco Systems Computer scientists have identified a vulnerability in the network of AT&T and at least 47 other cellular... […]Dan Goodin
- The Tao of Mac: Leap MotionApple, buy these guys NOW. Here’s a bit more. Looks amazing, and the price is certainly a matter of production volume.☯ […]Rui Carmo
- AnandTech: HP Z420 Workstation Review: Competition Heats UpRecently we had a chance to review Dell's Precision T3600, and we found it impressive. A company that seemed content to be an also-ran in the enterprise desktop space reinvigorated itself with smart new chassis designs to go along with the refreshed hardware from Intel and NVIDIA, and the... […]Dustin Sklavos
- Ars Technica: The future is forever: the state of IPv6 in the Apple worldPhoto illustration by Aurich Lawson With the demise of Apple's own networking protocol AppleTalk, Apple's products are suffering from the same issue as anyone else's: the Internet is running out of addresses. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix, and others will permanently turn on IPv6 in less than a month... […]Iljitsch van Beijnum
- David Lebovitz: Aux Tonneaux des HallesEveryone once in a while, it hits me: I need steak-frites. It’s an infrequent indulgence, but when I do have it, I like my steak with a crisp exterior, pan-seared until saignant (medium-rare), with a large pile of real frites. Most my French friends like their beef bleu,... […]David
- Econbrowser: Fiscal stimulusMy colleague UCSD Professor Valerie Ramey has an interesting new paper looking at the effects of higher government spending on GDP. Ramey (2012)approaches the question from a forecasting perspective. Suppose a certain event (examples of which are detailed below) causes you to revise your forecast of how high government... […]James Hamilton (jhamilton@ucsd.edu)
- The Trouble with Tribbles...: Vendor Stack vs build your ownOperating System distributions are getting ever more bloated, including more and more packages. While this reduces the need for the end user to build their own software, does it actually eliminate the need for systems administrators to manage the software on their systems?I would argue that in many cases... […]Peter Tribble (noreply@blogger.com)
- LensRentals Blog: Testing for a Decentered Lens: an Old Technique Gets a MakeoverWhat is Decentering and What Does it Do? Strictly speaking, decentering would involve one or more of the lens elements being off of the central axis of the lens. This would prevent the curved surfaces of the lens from bending the light properly. In severe cases it could result in... […]Roger Cicala
- I, Cringely: Why Facebook isn’t embarrassed by its IPOSo Facebook is now a public company but with the shares only one day old the news is already bad: Facebook shares didn’t pull a Google or a Yahoo or a Microsoft or even a TheGlobe.com and soar out of sight on IPO day. They ended right where they started... […]Robert X. Cringely
- Gizmodo: Minimalist Desktop Water Dispenser Is a Lovely Way To Stay Hydrated [Water Cooler]It's not always easy remembering to down the recommended eight glasses of water per day. But Qualy's Thirsy Bird portable water dispenser should make it a bit easier as it provides a stylish reminder to drink-up throughout your work day. More » […]Andrew Liszewski
- Bruce Momjian: Postgres Blog: Report from PGConPGCon 2012 is now over. Surprisingly, all the talks that excited me were from the second/last day. My morning started with WAL Internals Of PostgreSQL (slides) by Amit Kapila. I rarely see this topic covered, and his comparisons to Oracle's transaction logging were fresh. Also in the... […]bruce@momjian.us (Bruce Momjian)
- Ming Thein | Photographer: May 10, Part 1: The Leica M-Monochrom review