Somewhere out there!

Some follow ups on the disk reliability studies that have been going on recently: Using MTBF and Time Dependent Reliability for disks.

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Zfs is moving pretty quickly. milek’s blog: ZFS online replication

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Novell parody on the Apple ads. The second one is very clever.

From: Wired, via Crave and digg.

Third one via the youtube site:

From Moore’s Law and memory to hit physics wall:

“You get into the 25nm regime, and there may need to be a new structure for nonvolatile memory,” said Mike Splinter, CEO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied Materials Inc., the world’s biggest supplier of tools for making microchips. “I’m quite nervous about this, because 25nm is not that far away, and if you have to change a process in a couple generations, then that is really challenging,” Splinter said in a recent interview.

The transition to large solid state Drives might not be so clear cut.

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I guess I need to work on my marketing:

From Gottabemobile. The flip keyboard is interesting.

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It’s not often you see some that could make a difference in peoples understanding of the world.  Statistics and lies are often used together, but this is true of all knowledge. Without the tools to ask questions we can not hope to understand ourselves.

From slashdot, see also the Gap Minder homepage and have a play with the tool at google labs. Will be interesting to see if

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From Guy Kawasaki: a link to this interesting article and book.

The article postulates that people have two kinds of mindsets: growth or fixed. People with the growth mindset view life as a series of challenges and opportunities for improving. People with a fixed mindset believe that they are “set” as either good or bad. The issue is that the good ones believe they don’t have to work hard, and the bad ones believe that working hard won’t change anything.

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The Principals of Beautiful Design looks like a interesting book to read. The author’s website for the book is cleverly put together. This from  Stylegala:

I was immediately attracted to the many qualities of this website. From its chilled blue colour scheme to the big friendly two column layout, it oozes quality. Even the unusual hand-drawn typeface works without detriment to the design.However the real “wow” factor becomes evident when you move your mouse over the navigation links, or click them. The unique visual prompts have been thoughtfully designed and portray a friendly, hands-on approach which I imagine fits the aura of the book like a tailor-made glove. Personally I would have removed the hover effect and left it to click only, but that’s something and nothing.

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Found a sliver of time and installed a couple plugins today. WordPress makes this a very easy process, which is one of the reasons I stick with this platform rather than finding some Rails based system. WordPress Video Plugin and View Counter. Unless the view counter is getting it wrong I seemed to be getting more views than I was expecting, maybe I’ll install Stat Traq and get Google Analytics going again to get a better idea of what are reading.