Weekend Links

In another attempt to clean up my bookmarks of various things, I’ve taken the time to post a few more links for someone’s (mostly my) pleasure.

• How One Man Hacked His Way Into the Slot-Machine Industry [wired.com]
• Half of U.S. adults will be obese by 2030, report says [washingtonpost.com]
• Linux at 20, some personal memories [liw.fi]
• March of the Penguin: Ars looks back at 20 years of Linux [arstechnica.com]
• Mad about metered billing? They were in 1886, too [arstechnica.com]
• Microsoft showcases new copy, move, rename functions in Windows 8 (video) [engadget.com]

Random Links, 9/03/2011

• 'Shrimp On A Treadmill': The Politics Of 'Silly' Studies [npr.org]
• Another Windows 8 tidbit: File management to get an overhaul [zdnet.com]
• UK's atomic clock 'is world's most accurate' [bbc.co.uk]
• H-P's One-Year Plan [wsj.com]
• What lies beneath in the catacombs of Paris [bbc.co.uk]
• Groupon's CEO lashes out at critics ahead of IPO [reuters.com]

The IPv4 Market

A few interesting links appeared in my RSS feeds the other day, and I figured they were interesting enough to share. They certainly bring up a few discussion topics, though the third link deals more with the political side of reselling IPs and none on the technical aspects that the Ars articles cover. All in all, the topic is something that I'm interested in and I'm not at all sure how the future will end up for it.

• The case for a free market in IPv4 addresses
• Trading IPv4 addresses will end in tears
• Trading IPv4 Addresses Starts Making Internet Elders Nervous

Safe Journey, Steve

Steve Jobs has stepped down as CEO of Apple, and we've had a few days to internalize what this actually means. So far Wall Street doesn't seem to mind, as their stock has increased in value since the announcement, and tech pundits seem to have calmed down a bit since. Apple the company is not going anywhere and there are plenty of people there that work incredibly hard to produce the products in their lineup. Here are a few links about the legendary Steve Jobs at Apple.

• A 1992 Look at Steve Jobs and the Birth of Apple
• Money Quotes, Steve Jobs-Style
• Steve Jobs' Apple: a timeline
• Steve Jobs Steps Down the First Time: The 1985 Press Coverage
• Steve Jobs: The Edison of Our Time and the Future of Apple
• The End of Innocence: What Happened After Apple Fired Steve Jobs (Pt 1)
• The End of Innocence: How Steve Jobs Was Able to Save Apple (Pt 2)

KVM on Illumos

KVM on Illumos

A little over a year ago, I came to Joyent because of a shared belief that systems software innovation matters — that there is no level of the software stack that should be considered off-limits to innovation. Specifically, we ardently believe in innovating in the operating system itself — that extending and leveraging technologies like [...]

[Planet Illumos]

Space: The Final Frontier

I’ve had a bunch of links about the NASA Space Transportation System (STS) – otherwise known as the “shuttles” – accumulating over the past few weeks, so I’ve decided to dump them here. The articles offer a great perspective of the shuttle system, as well as some awesome and spectacular photographs depicting the program over the years. Enjoy the reads :)

• The space shuttle: Portrait of an American era – A great photo gallery of some unique and memorable shots of shuttle, locations, and people (Washington Post Magazine, July 6 2011)
• Last flight of the Space Shuttle: a 30-year retrospective – Overview of the Space Transportation System (Ars Technica, July 7 2011)
• Video: As Endeavour Returns Home For the Final Time, Atlantis Prepares for the Last Shuttle Launch Ever – A wrap-up of the Endeavour shuttle and video of its last mission landing (Popular Science, June 1 2011)
• As Humans Take Leave of Space, Robot Explorers Will Go Farther and Look Closer Than Ever – A perspective that the end of the shuttle program is nothing to be sad about, as it is the starting point for a brand new future for NASA with robots and far-reaching exploration (Popular Science, July 8 2011)
• Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked to the ISS : Big Pic – A beautiful once-in-a-lifetime photograph of the shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station (Discovery News, June 7 2011)

DOCSIS

I wanted to post these two links from Ars Technica which were published a few weeks ago about one of the current prominent cable internet technologies, Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS). The two parts are a nice overview of the tech for those that aren’t network administrators (and even for those that are) and give some insight into how many home internet connections work today.

• Meet DOCSIS, Part 1: the unsung hero of high-speed cable Internet access
• Meet DOCSIS, Part 2: the jump from 2.0 to 3.0