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Tech Tuesday: HTTP
Albert Wenger – Jan 31, 2012
Today we are continuing on with the web request cycle. After the browser has parsed the URL and obtained the IP address of the server via DNS, the browser now has to communicate with the server. That is done using [...] Read more
Information Does Not Want To Be Free
Andy Weissman – Jan 31, 2012
Stewart Brand is infamously reported as saying "information wants to be free"- the rallying cry against any limits on information ownership, the mantra for free content and ideas. Which obviously leads to scorn and mockery: "You'll often hear cypherpunk weenies [...] Read more
ReRAM: An Exciting Hardware Innovation
Albert Wenger – Jan 30, 2012
In my Tech Tuesday posts I have covered main memory and storage (by the way, coming up tomorrow: HTTP). If you have read those or otherwise follow hardware, then you will find this short piece from BBC Technology News on [...] Read more
Thinking About Alternatives to SOPA/PIPA
Albert Wenger – Jan 27, 2012
With SOPA and PIPA shelved at least for the moment, it is time to start thinking about alternatives. It would be a shame if we limited our collective thinking here to slightly different versions of those bills instead of exploring [...] Read more
Apple Is Slow Boiling Developers
Albert Wenger – Jan 26, 2012
How do you boil a frog? Slowly. Apparently the same is true for endusers and even software developers. That at least is what Apple seems to believe. And while this has been debunked for frogs (they do jump out as [...] Read more
Supermodularity And Service Bundling
Albert Wenger – Jan 25, 2012
This will be a bit of a wonky and short post with a longer and less technical one to follow some time soon. Google has just announced a coming update to their privacy policy which will essentially make it possible [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: DNS
Albert Wenger – Jan 24, 2012
Today we are continuing with the web cycle that I outlined two weeks ago. After a URL has been parsed in Step 1, the browser needs to determine the IP address for the domain as Step 2. Reprising the previous [...] Read more
Why Software As A Service (A Personal Reminder)
Albert Wenger – Jan 23, 2012
I am in the process of migrating a bunch of stuff off an ancient server which has been up continuously for 5 years and is being sunset (the hardware is tired and RedHat is ending support for RHEL4). The migration [...] Read more
Some Quick Observations on MegaUpload
Albert Wenger – Jan 20, 2012
Yesterday an international police operation resulted in the shutdown of MegaUpload and the arrest of at least four MegaUpload employees in Auckland, New Zealand. This action resulted in a large scale DDoS attack by the group known as Anonymous on [...] Read more