December 2008
19 posts
“A system that is not tolerant to network partitions can achieve data consistency...”
– Eventually Consistent. Most of what I read about Amazon’s SimpleDB is immediately dismissive (and sometimes derisive) over the issue of “eventual consistency”. This quotation (which refers to the CAP theorem) concisely explains why it’s often appropriate to sacrifice...
Mmmm, Bacon. →
Everything is better with bacon, even the web.
browser.ssl_override_behavior = 2 →
Makes the new SSL exception dialog in Firefox 3 ever so slightly less annoying.
“If dd receives a SIGINFO signal, the current input and output block counts will...”
– Mac OS X Manual Page For dd(1). I never knew this before, but it’s rather handy.
2008 in photographs (part 2 of 3) - The Big... →
Wow.
“In some cases, people were not able to download (and install) any of the firefox...”
– ArchWiki :: Firefox - ArchWiki. Glad to know it’s not just me, but strange that this isn’t more widely documented (and stranger still that it’s gone unfixed for so long).
Higher-Order Perl →
Looks like an excellent book to buy for junior programmers who are working with Perl. (Yes, it’s available as a free download, but presuming that you’re actually working with Perl you can afford to pay for the dead tree edition.)
Solveig’s Blog →
“Hey, I just bought the new Nikon D4—the one that comes with a...”
– Camera Lens Focal Lengths: Measure for Measure - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com. Ha!
RTM/Gmail create task in current list for... →
When using the Remember the Milk Firefox extension for Gmail, if your view is set to a specific list, this script forces new tasks to be created in that list (instead of the default list).
“I don’t know which is more alarming: that the vendor failed to treat as an...”
– Election Transparency Project Finds Ballot-Counting Bug | Freedom to Tinker
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iPhone wish
Since the iPhone senses whether your phone is held up to your ear or not, it would be nice if the iPhone would automatically switch to speakerphone if taken away from your ear, and automatically switch back to the earpiece when placed near your ear again.
“On Earth, skeet shooting is an outdoor shotgun sport that simulates shooting...”
– Cassini-Huygens: News-Significant Events-2008 (via)
“The greatness of Keynes is illustrated by the trouble people who consider...”
– The greatness of Keynes … - Paul Krugman Blog. Yay, New York Times vs Washington Post!