google is starting to be more open about their data centers...maybe they were influenced by what facebook was doing...very interesting stuff, and it'll give a good idea of the amount of resources needed to run a company like google...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411076,00.asp
http://googlegreenblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/
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Showing posts with label tech. Show all posts
31 October 2012
04 August 2012
netflix
interesting article about how netflix purposely shuts off production instances to make sure that they stay running in case of failure
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/netflix-attacks-own-network-with-chaos-monkey-and-now-you-can-too/
18 June 2012
surface
microsoft's tablet
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/gallery.aspx
seems interesting although the video is lame...might be worth stopping by a microsoft store to check it out...it would have to be fairly inexpensive for me to consider buying it though
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/240002115
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/gallery.aspx
seems interesting although the video is lame...might be worth stopping by a microsoft store to check it out...it would have to be fairly inexpensive for me to consider buying it though
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/240002115
new mac book pro
interesting article about how consumers' buying decisions allowed apple to go from making laptops that are easy to upgrade and repair to making ones that are not
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa/
you can't even replace the battery without paying 200 bucks...can't even put in extra memory...apple fans must think that a $2000 laptop is disposable...apple has gotten too good at brainwashing people to want the newest even when the ipad, iphone, and macbook that they have is perfectly fine...they have become so good at what they do, that customers expect to get ripped off and a lack of choice is seen as a good thing...i'll stick with my windows machine...i used a p4 for 7-8 years with one upgrade in ram and hard drive...now i'm on my 5th year with a core 2 duo with an upgrade in memory and ssd with probably at least 3 more years of life in the pc...can't do that with apple...at least with the ones that are made now
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/opinion-apple-retina-displa/
you can't even replace the battery without paying 200 bucks...can't even put in extra memory...apple fans must think that a $2000 laptop is disposable...apple has gotten too good at brainwashing people to want the newest even when the ipad, iphone, and macbook that they have is perfectly fine...they have become so good at what they do, that customers expect to get ripped off and a lack of choice is seen as a good thing...i'll stick with my windows machine...i used a p4 for 7-8 years with one upgrade in ram and hard drive...now i'm on my 5th year with a core 2 duo with an upgrade in memory and ssd with probably at least 3 more years of life in the pc...can't do that with apple...at least with the ones that are made now
07 June 2012
startups
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304371504577406142515388550.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle
a good article about what the real tech start up industry should be about...not semi-useful websites that produce nothing real like facebook, but companies that are looking to solve real problems in energy, manufacturing, transportation, etc...that is why google is a real "tech" company...some think they're just a search engine company, but they do real research in robotics, automation, and whatever else they're cooking up in google x...imagine how useful a self-driving car would be to a blind or elderly person...space x is another great example of a real tech start up (http://www.spacex.com/)...started by the guy who made pay pal...i bet nasa is super pleased with the results with dragon's successful mission since the budget for the space program got cut...i don't want to single out facebook too much, because they still do some interesting things with their data center design and their open compute project (http://opencompute.org/)...however, it is a necessary byproduct of the need to have a website for close to a billion people...i think it is a great idea for them publish their research and design of their data centers for everyone to study and build upon, which is completely the opposite of the super secret policy that just about all other tech companies adopt...if the US wants to remain a leader, then they have to go back to real science, engineering, and R&D and move away from finance related industries and internet start-ups that make nothing
a good article about what the real tech start up industry should be about...not semi-useful websites that produce nothing real like facebook, but companies that are looking to solve real problems in energy, manufacturing, transportation, etc...that is why google is a real "tech" company...some think they're just a search engine company, but they do real research in robotics, automation, and whatever else they're cooking up in google x...imagine how useful a self-driving car would be to a blind or elderly person...space x is another great example of a real tech start up (http://www.spacex.com/)...started by the guy who made pay pal...i bet nasa is super pleased with the results with dragon's successful mission since the budget for the space program got cut...i don't want to single out facebook too much, because they still do some interesting things with their data center design and their open compute project (http://opencompute.org/)...however, it is a necessary byproduct of the need to have a website for close to a billion people...i think it is a great idea for them publish their research and design of their data centers for everyone to study and build upon, which is completely the opposite of the super secret policy that just about all other tech companies adopt...if the US wants to remain a leader, then they have to go back to real science, engineering, and R&D and move away from finance related industries and internet start-ups that make nothing
15 February 2012
solve for x
it's like TED but by google
http://www.wesolveforx.com/
things like this and google x are what differentiate google from other major tech companies...yes, google is just a search engine with only a few good apps like email, chat, and maps and their income is mostly from ads...however, they are willing to spend money on things that are not necessarily related to search and ads...maybe they really want to do good and try to solve the world's problems...that seems too naive to me, but there may be some truth to it...i think google knows that by branching out and doing r&d on other things like robotics can lead to new tech that can be profitable even if wall street frowns upon heavy spending
on a side note, i remember reading an article about google's last earnings report, and how wall street was unhappy about them spending a lot of money to hire people even though the company made a ton of money...then i read another article that stated that the stock market went down because of a weak job market report, illustrating the stupidity of our financial system...on one hand they're not happy because too much money was spent on hiring people, but on the other hand, they're unhappy because not enough people were hired...morons
the point is that a lot of tech companies are really innovative in the beginning, which help them become successful, and then they go public...then the company is pressured to have their stock perform...their focus shifts from r&d, engineering, and coming up with new stuff to sales, marketing, and finance to increase profit, and they end up losing their innovation - the thing that made them successful
http://www.wesolveforx.com/
things like this and google x are what differentiate google from other major tech companies...yes, google is just a search engine with only a few good apps like email, chat, and maps and their income is mostly from ads...however, they are willing to spend money on things that are not necessarily related to search and ads...maybe they really want to do good and try to solve the world's problems...that seems too naive to me, but there may be some truth to it...i think google knows that by branching out and doing r&d on other things like robotics can lead to new tech that can be profitable even if wall street frowns upon heavy spending
on a side note, i remember reading an article about google's last earnings report, and how wall street was unhappy about them spending a lot of money to hire people even though the company made a ton of money...then i read another article that stated that the stock market went down because of a weak job market report, illustrating the stupidity of our financial system...on one hand they're not happy because too much money was spent on hiring people, but on the other hand, they're unhappy because not enough people were hired...morons
the point is that a lot of tech companies are really innovative in the beginning, which help them become successful, and then they go public...then the company is pressured to have their stock perform...their focus shifts from r&d, engineering, and coming up with new stuff to sales, marketing, and finance to increase profit, and they end up losing their innovation - the thing that made them successful
05 February 2012
facebook pics
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/nearly-3-years-later-deleted-facebook-photos-are-still-online.ars?
article from ars technica about pictures that are still available on facebook even after they were deleted by the user...i deleted all of my personal pics from fb, but it is possible that they are still there somewhere...i did download all the data that facebook has on my account, and none of my pics were there...however, that does not necessarily mean that my pics are actually gone from their servers...so true that once it is out there in the internet ether, it never really goes away
article from ars technica about pictures that are still available on facebook even after they were deleted by the user...i deleted all of my personal pics from fb, but it is possible that they are still there somewhere...i did download all the data that facebook has on my account, and none of my pics were there...however, that does not necessarily mean that my pics are actually gone from their servers...so true that once it is out there in the internet ether, it never really goes away
17 January 2012
sopa blackout
wikipedia went dark and google covered up their logo to spread the word about sopa...reddit should be next...clicking on google's logo gives you this page...i want to sign the petition, but my paranoid side makes me wonder what the gubment will do with my email
19 November 2011
sopa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
good video that summarizes what sopa is about...under the guise of protecting intellectual property, this law will give media corporations blanket authority to shut down any site they deem is using copyrighted material illegally...the law is worded so broadly that you could even go to jail if you posted a video of yourself singing a copyrighted song
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/11/stop-sopa-save-the-internet.html
Google knows it. Viacom knows it. The Chamber of Commerce knows it. Internet democracy groups know it. BoingBoing knows it. But, the Internet hasn't been told yet -- we're going to get blown away by the end of the year. The worst bill in Internet history is about to become law. Law is very real here in the United States and legal language is often different than stated intentions -- this law would give government and corporations the power to block sites like BoingBoing over infringing links on at least one webpage posted by their users. Believe the EFF, Public Knowledge, Google when they say this bill is about much more than copyright, it's about the Internet and free speech everywhere.
The MPAA, RIAA, Hollywood knows that they have been flying in CEOs of as many companies as possible, recruiting people to get petition signups at malls in California, and here's the big point-- they know they have gotten their message through to Congress -- the worst bill in Internet history, the one where government and their corporations get unbelievable power to take down sites, threaten payment processors into stopping payment to sites on a blacklist, and throw people in jail for posting ordinary content is about to pass before the end of this year. The only thing that is going to stop Hollywood from owning the Internet and everything we do, is if there is a big surprise Internet backlash starting right now.
PROTECT IP (S. 968)/SOPA (HR. 3261) creates the first system for Internet censorship - this bill has sweeping provisions that give the government and corporations leeway and legal cover for taking down sites "by accident," mistakenly, or for NOT doing "enough" to protect the interests of Hollywood. These bills that are moving very quickly through Congress and can pass before Christmas aim to give the US government and corporations the ability to block sites over infringing links posted by their users and give ISPs the release to take any means to block peoples' sites, including slowing down your connection. That's right, some say this bill is a workaround to net neutrality and is bigger than net neutrality.
This is the worst piece of Internet legislation in history - the lawmakers who have been sponsoring (Leahy, Lamar Smith, Conyers) this bill need to be shamed by the Internet community for wasting taxpayer dollars on a bill that would break the very fabric of the Internet, create an Internet blacklist, kill jobs and great startup companies, huge blogs, and social networks.
Everyone, the entire Internet community needs to stand together if we don't want to see this bill actually become law. Internet and democracy groups are planning an Internet-wide day of protest called American Censorship Day on Wednesday, November 16th for the day Congress holds a hearing on these bills to create the first American Internet censorship system. Every single person with a website can join and needs to.
Boing Boing, Grooveshark, Free Software Foundation, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Demand Progress, Open Congress/PPF, TechDirt, Fight for the Future and dozens of other sites have created this day to ask you to join them to stop S. 978 and HR 3261, as hard as you can. Write them, protest, call them, protest, support your favorite sites, protest, sign a letter, block out your site, protest.
Many public intellectuals who are often the ones to help win the public interest over and over are about to come out to lead the charge to stop PROTECT IP/ SOPA - they have to when they learn that the House and Senate will be working to pass this bill before the Christmas. From those doing work on the hill, it's very clear we have been stacked comparatively lightly. The House bill has 40 co-sponsors and major industry support. The only thing that will change the dynamic now is if Congress gets a knock on their door by CEO"s of small and large tech companies, blogs, and news sites and if Internet users start piling on, one by one, and protest.
Tech companies, blogs, news sites are already in a death-do-die battle cry -- listen to them -- it's a few days before the hearing on this bill. But, we need more tech companies, blogs, new sites before the hearing on this bill. Help get them.
I've been trying to think about whether or not the world is going to end if this bill passes like it's supposed to -- and the answer is, "kind of yes". When small sites, and it's the small sites that get turned off in the night and no one for the most part notices, say my friend's political blog or news site gets blocked by the US government and she has no way to get it back up even though everything she did was legal according to current law, and no one can help her except she can choose to file suit to defend herself, I feel like I die inside a little. Living in a country where you are being shut out and left powerless to really defend yourself is like living in another country, the ones you hear about. Life starts to feel shot when that happens, especially to our friends or our favorites sites.
Every site who has user-generated content, posts links or videos to anything copyrighted in it could face new legal threats.
If a copyrights holder disliked links you have on your site, they could simply file a complaint with a payment processor (Visa, PayPal), who would then have 5 days to respond to their request or risk legal ramifications. If bills like this are allowed to pass, we'll be spending another $47 million dollars every year to help corporations fill out and enforce Internet blacklists.
Sites that would be legal under the DMCA and its safe harbor provisions would now risk losing everything for allowing user generated content. It also has added in the streaming felony bill that would make it so ordinary Internet users are at risk of going to jail for 5 years for post any copyrighted work that would cost $2,500 to license. And because copyright is so broad, that means videos with copyrighted music in the background, kids in a school play, people singing karaoke could all be a risk.
Because the law affects almost every Internet user and the sites they use every day and have come to love, and because granting sweeping blacklisting powers is just sickening to almost everyone, we need your help -- if you can encourage your favorite site to join the protest, and help drive the maximum number of people to contact Congress on November 16th (until the bill dies), please help.
These bills represent a major blow to openness and freedom on the Internet, free speech rights, and the fabric of the Internet itself. If SOPA is allowed to pass, the Internet and free speech will never be the same again.
good video that summarizes what sopa is about...under the guise of protecting intellectual property, this law will give media corporations blanket authority to shut down any site they deem is using copyrighted material illegally...the law is worded so broadly that you could even go to jail if you posted a video of yourself singing a copyrighted song
http://boingboing.net/2011/11/11/stop-sopa-save-the-internet.html
Google knows it. Viacom knows it. The Chamber of Commerce knows it. Internet democracy groups know it. BoingBoing knows it. But, the Internet hasn't been told yet -- we're going to get blown away by the end of the year. The worst bill in Internet history is about to become law. Law is very real here in the United States and legal language is often different than stated intentions -- this law would give government and corporations the power to block sites like BoingBoing over infringing links on at least one webpage posted by their users. Believe the EFF, Public Knowledge, Google when they say this bill is about much more than copyright, it's about the Internet and free speech everywhere.
The MPAA, RIAA, Hollywood knows that they have been flying in CEOs of as many companies as possible, recruiting people to get petition signups at malls in California, and here's the big point-- they know they have gotten their message through to Congress -- the worst bill in Internet history, the one where government and their corporations get unbelievable power to take down sites, threaten payment processors into stopping payment to sites on a blacklist, and throw people in jail for posting ordinary content is about to pass before the end of this year. The only thing that is going to stop Hollywood from owning the Internet and everything we do, is if there is a big surprise Internet backlash starting right now.
PROTECT IP (S. 968)/SOPA (HR. 3261) creates the first system for Internet censorship - this bill has sweeping provisions that give the government and corporations leeway and legal cover for taking down sites "by accident," mistakenly, or for NOT doing "enough" to protect the interests of Hollywood. These bills that are moving very quickly through Congress and can pass before Christmas aim to give the US government and corporations the ability to block sites over infringing links posted by their users and give ISPs the release to take any means to block peoples' sites, including slowing down your connection. That's right, some say this bill is a workaround to net neutrality and is bigger than net neutrality.
This is the worst piece of Internet legislation in history - the lawmakers who have been sponsoring (Leahy, Lamar Smith, Conyers) this bill need to be shamed by the Internet community for wasting taxpayer dollars on a bill that would break the very fabric of the Internet, create an Internet blacklist, kill jobs and great startup companies, huge blogs, and social networks.
Everyone, the entire Internet community needs to stand together if we don't want to see this bill actually become law. Internet and democracy groups are planning an Internet-wide day of protest called American Censorship Day on Wednesday, November 16th for the day Congress holds a hearing on these bills to create the first American Internet censorship system. Every single person with a website can join and needs to.
Boing Boing, Grooveshark, Free Software Foundation, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Demand Progress, Open Congress/PPF, TechDirt, Fight for the Future and dozens of other sites have created this day to ask you to join them to stop S. 978 and HR 3261, as hard as you can. Write them, protest, call them, protest, support your favorite sites, protest, sign a letter, block out your site, protest.
Many public intellectuals who are often the ones to help win the public interest over and over are about to come out to lead the charge to stop PROTECT IP/ SOPA - they have to when they learn that the House and Senate will be working to pass this bill before the Christmas. From those doing work on the hill, it's very clear we have been stacked comparatively lightly. The House bill has 40 co-sponsors and major industry support. The only thing that will change the dynamic now is if Congress gets a knock on their door by CEO"s of small and large tech companies, blogs, and news sites and if Internet users start piling on, one by one, and protest.
Tech companies, blogs, news sites are already in a death-do-die battle cry -- listen to them -- it's a few days before the hearing on this bill. But, we need more tech companies, blogs, new sites before the hearing on this bill. Help get them.
I've been trying to think about whether or not the world is going to end if this bill passes like it's supposed to -- and the answer is, "kind of yes". When small sites, and it's the small sites that get turned off in the night and no one for the most part notices, say my friend's political blog or news site gets blocked by the US government and she has no way to get it back up even though everything she did was legal according to current law, and no one can help her except she can choose to file suit to defend herself, I feel like I die inside a little. Living in a country where you are being shut out and left powerless to really defend yourself is like living in another country, the ones you hear about. Life starts to feel shot when that happens, especially to our friends or our favorites sites.
Every site who has user-generated content, posts links or videos to anything copyrighted in it could face new legal threats.
If a copyrights holder disliked links you have on your site, they could simply file a complaint with a payment processor (Visa, PayPal), who would then have 5 days to respond to their request or risk legal ramifications. If bills like this are allowed to pass, we'll be spending another $47 million dollars every year to help corporations fill out and enforce Internet blacklists.
Sites that would be legal under the DMCA and its safe harbor provisions would now risk losing everything for allowing user generated content. It also has added in the streaming felony bill that would make it so ordinary Internet users are at risk of going to jail for 5 years for post any copyrighted work that would cost $2,500 to license. And because copyright is so broad, that means videos with copyrighted music in the background, kids in a school play, people singing karaoke could all be a risk.
Because the law affects almost every Internet user and the sites they use every day and have come to love, and because granting sweeping blacklisting powers is just sickening to almost everyone, we need your help -- if you can encourage your favorite site to join the protest, and help drive the maximum number of people to contact Congress on November 16th (until the bill dies), please help.
These bills represent a major blow to openness and freedom on the Internet, free speech rights, and the fabric of the Internet itself. If SOPA is allowed to pass, the Internet and free speech will never be the same again.
15 October 2011
more jobs comparisons
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/dennis-ritchie-obit-bell-labs/
"Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language, and with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson, he used C to build UNIX, the operating system that so much of the world is built on -- including the Apple empire overseen by Steve Jobs"
"Dennis Ritchie is the father of the C programming language, and with fellow Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson, he used C to build UNIX, the operating system that so much of the world is built on -- including the Apple empire overseen by Steve Jobs"
12 October 2011
related to my earlier post about jobs
a few articles about apple/jobs and his legacy
http://www.american.com/archive/2011/september/why-jobs-is-no-edison
http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-08/tech/30128341_1_microsoft-products-macintosh-software-innovators
most people and the media only focus on the consumer side of things and forget that microsoft's impact to companies around the world and how they run their businesses is ginormous compared to apple...take away apple's products right now, and the world can go on...take away microsoft's products, and most of the businesses in the world can't function...at least until they find substitutes for all the various types of business software that microsoft makes...
this also got me wondering about the type of software that apple uses...microsoft sells just about every major type of enterprise software that a company might need, so my guess is that they use their products in-house...for example, they probably use ms sql for all their databases, microsoft dynamics (erp and crm), sharepoint (collaboration), windows server, etc...however, what does apple use?...they don't have a lot of enterprise level software...they sell some server and san hardware and os x lion, but what do they have other than that?...do they have all proprietary software to run their business or do they use something like sap?...just curious to know
http://www.american.com/archive/2011/september/why-jobs-is-no-edison
http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-08/tech/30128341_1_microsoft-products-macintosh-software-innovators
most people and the media only focus on the consumer side of things and forget that microsoft's impact to companies around the world and how they run their businesses is ginormous compared to apple...take away apple's products right now, and the world can go on...take away microsoft's products, and most of the businesses in the world can't function...at least until they find substitutes for all the various types of business software that microsoft makes...
this also got me wondering about the type of software that apple uses...microsoft sells just about every major type of enterprise software that a company might need, so my guess is that they use their products in-house...for example, they probably use ms sql for all their databases, microsoft dynamics (erp and crm), sharepoint (collaboration), windows server, etc...however, what does apple use?...they don't have a lot of enterprise level software...they sell some server and san hardware and os x lion, but what do they have other than that?...do they have all proprietary software to run their business or do they use something like sap?...just curious to know
09 October 2011
tech companies
interesting family tree of major tech companies has been going around the interwebs...http://www.bitrebels.com/technology/the-astounding-family-tree-of-major-tech-companies-infographic/
07 October 2011
woz
an interview with woz about steve jobs...you might have to sit through an ad though to watch it...woz was the engineer and jobs was the business guy...you can probably guess that i'm partial to the engineer...plain to see just how different the two are in terms of personality, but they were able to work together and do some pretty amazing things...i don't like apple and the fanboyism/cult that it created, but i do respect what these two were able to do with just their ideas and ingenuity...however, all the comparisons of jobs to others like einstein is ridiculous in my opinion...there is a quote of him saying to the pepsi ceo who jobs was trying to recruit into apple if he wanted to sell sugar water or change the world...however, if you think about it, jobs' main impact was that he could package things nicely and sell it...he didn't invent anything...did the ipod really change the world?...the computer changed the world, but apple didn't invent that either...he definitely had an impact on certain industries and the way people did certain things but nothing that fundamentally changed the way we understand the world like einstein did...apple didn't really invent things like the mouse either...jobs saw that while touring xerox...jobs achieved more in his brief life than 99.99% of us will, and i am not taking away from what he did...what i don't like is the typical apple fanboyism that is making him to be a super genius who comes around only every 500 years and was some kind of technological messiah
the mini rant above probably sounds mean spirited although i just wanted to point out all the over-praising and share the interview video...they say jobs was influenced by buddhism (don't know if he actually practiced it), so for karmic reasons, i'll make it up with this nice tribute by wil wheaton
05 October 2011
rip jobs
i don't like apple, but he was great at what he did...making people covet things that they didn't even know they needed or wanted
09 August 2011
tumbler
for some reason the tumblr page i made is not showing up anymore...short-lived experiment in changing blogs
08 August 2011
tumblr
imported to tumblr...http://sebs-stuff.tumblr.com/
i can't seem to do as much customization, but that might be the appeal of tumblr...real simple and straightforward...
i can't seem to do as much customization, but that might be the appeal of tumblr...real simple and straightforward...
11 July 2011
Fleet Commander
this is a short video of grad students who came up with a cool way to use multi-touch interface for a star wars real-time strategy game
05 July 2011
amazon
no more amazon associates for people in california...it doesn't affect me since about 3 people visit this site, but it must suck for real websites that depend on it
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