• Some More Clustering Tools

    Posted on February 9, 2004

    A Linux Gazette article about Hybrid Clusters mentions a couple of cool tools that I didn’t know about. In particular, the DRBD package looks great. In the past few weeks I’ve run across Clustered JDBC for the first time as well. c-jdbc looks like a great package, but applies only... [Read More]

  • Emerging Technologies Conf

    Posted on February 9, 2004

    Although I would have loved to attend, I’m not going to be able to make the Emerging Technologies Conference, but given that nature of the conf this might not be much of an issue. There’s a wiki to go along with the event, an ETech page on the Joi Ito... [Read More]

  • Geographic Info and Presence

    Posted on February 8, 2004

    I saw an article about IETF work on geolocation and presence info linked off O’Reilly. This is very cool, I hadn’t heard anything about the GEOPRIV working group before, and it could mean that work in general on the subject is a lot further along than I expected it to... [Read More]

  • SmartMobs Mobile

    Posted on February 7, 2004

    Howard Rheingold has been running a great news site SmartMobs focusing on a lot of the issues covered in the SmartMobs book. I feel the circle has now been closed. The book was kicked off by mobile usage and pervasive computing, which spawned a site, and has now given rise... [Read More]

  • Economic Analysis of SPAM

    Posted on February 6, 2004

    Slashdot mentions a paper about applying information theory analysis and economics to the Spam issue. I think the paper raises some pretty good points. I’m most interested in seeing a system like this applied to SMS however. For a long time I’ve been bitching about how the lack of peer... [Read More]

  • Venture Capital Term Sheets

    Posted on February 5, 2004

    A post at Emergic pointed me to an explanation of terms used by venture capitalists when funding a company. I’ve been at lots of startup companies in the past, and been through the funding process, but I’ve never been in on the terms negotiation. From the little bit I do... [Read More]

  • Lindows Uses Peer2Peer Distribution

    Posted on February 5, 2004

    Dan Gillmor has a post about Lindows using P2P distribution networks to get the Lindows Live CDs out to users. As he states in his article, this is a great example of the positive use of these networks. With music and movie companies spreading fear and doubt far and wide,... [Read More]

  • Technology Opportunities for Humanity

    Posted on February 5, 2004

    I’m walking home from a presentation about Technology Opportunities for Humanity, and it was really very good. I was afraid that it would be a whole bunch of talk about charity work and how we as Big Powerful Silicon Valley Residents can help out the poor slobs everywhere else. It... [Read More]

  • Bandwidth Reduction

    Posted on February 3, 2004

    Jon Udell has a post about the two techniques used to reduce bandwidth when downloading feeds. Those examples were pretty cool. I knew there was a header that could be used to check if a site had changed, but I never looked it up before. This is something I should... [Read More]