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Jimbotronon The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google

Yes, I find it VERY hard to believe that this went on and nobody mentioned it at all. Not one disgruntled employee, not anyone mentioning it to a friend at a bar? No way.

Jimbotronon Docker: The good parts

In that sense, we found that all container-based systems have a near-native performance of CPU, memory, disk and network. The main differences between them lies in the resource management implementation, resulting in poor isolation and security. [1]

[1] http://marceloneves.org/papers/pdp2013-containers.pdf

Jimbotronon Docker: The good parts

Docker and LXC looks interesting. What is your experience of the performance overheads of using containers?

Jimbotronon AMD denies killing off big cores (Kaveri, Steamroller, and Excavator)

Updated 11/19/2012@10:15am: AMD contacted us with an official denial of the story and stated that Kaveri and the big cores are still on track.

Jimbotronon How To Write Good Log Messages

In my experience the measure of good logging is the ability for someone, either yourself or an operations engineer to be able to easily solve problems using only the logs. They shouldn't have to refer to the source code. Developers should be using this as the yardstick when asking questions about their log output.

Jimbotronon Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident

I'll tell google to stop work because it doesn't help with your daily commute :-)

Jimbotronon Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

Indeed - I found the comments on the post almost as bad as the malice of the hack....

Jimbotronon Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25

I agree that that mac is six years old, but what is so different between the graphics requirements for lion and mountain lion? Seems like they didn't have the resources or inclination to upgrade the 32bit drivers to 64bit.

And yes - I'm aware that the upgrade costs $20 bucks. How much is a new macbook?

Jimbotronon Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25

Shame about the lack of support for older macs. I've upgraded my late 2006 MacBook with a new SSD and the thing runs great. Best upgrade I've ever done. Now mountain lion isn't supported. Looks like apple trying to increase those profits even further.

Your Mac must be one of the following models:

iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) Xserve (Early 2009)

http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

Jimbotronon Learning VIM while playing a game

Was silky smooth for me on a Mac Core 2 Duo & Chrome. Nice game and looking forward to more levels!