Dig up more on James Burke (linked below) if you can, and if you have the time. His Connections show was a delight.
- “This $1,500 Toaster Oven Is Everything That’s Wrong With Silicon Valley Design” This clickbaity title is everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley journalism… but I digress. (via)
- QoS when there is no congestion. (via)
- “Blame is apportioned appropriately.”
- James Burke and Connections kickstarted app. (via)
- “Weird, fun, wonderful, or useful automated phone numbers to call?” 1-800-444-4444 I use often at work, with a recorded message from a company that ceased to exist years ago. (via)
- Monads: Programmer’s Definition (via I think)
- The BASIC Issue with Retro Computers
- Procedural Dungeon Generation: Cellular Automata
- A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000) (via)
- Making umask work for you
- No more Solaris 12. A rumor. (via)
Hi,
my company is in the Solaris 12 private BETA (just had a new test-release yesterday) and it’s alive and kicking, I’m pretty sure we’ll see a public BETA soon and a 12.0 release next year. There were also commits for the new Oracle M8 and Fujitsu M12 chips, so they’re still working on new hardware as well.
Seems like FUD to me.
It’s just a rumor, then, which I am glad about.
WRT Solaris… meh. From what I’ve read most of the folks who worked on it before it was eaten by Oracle are working on the open source code derived from OpenSolaris.
All the cool stuff like the porting work being done in the OpenZFS project is not from Oracle.