Catching Up On My Geek Reading
"CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" is the report which outlines how Microsoft's insidious dominance of the desktop operating system market is asking for trouble. Dan Geer, one of the authors of the report, was removed from his job as Chief Technology Officer at @Stake, a security consulting firm which has done a good amount of business with Microsoft in the past. Draw your own conclusions.
Hack the Planet's summary of the Google File System paper is too delightful not to lift: "Those crazy scientists; you ask them to build a search engine and they throw in a scalable cluster filesystem for free."
What? It was either this stuff or Stephenson's Quicksilver. It's all just a matter of where I fall on the geek scale, rather than if.
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This is the archive of my research log that run until the end of 2004 when I switched over to LiveJournal for the routine blogging. Links herein may no longer work.