Archive: October 03, 2005

Monday, October 3, 2005

1. Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited, "Allocation is faster than you think, and getting faster", via Keith. To read.

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2. PDGA - Professional Disc Golf Association. Played this for the first time ever on Sunday (thanks Linc!). Never even knew this game existed before.

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3. Condi Rice's speech at Princeton on Friday: two firsthand accounts and the transcript. To finish reading. Via Glenn.

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4. Tsync HOWTO, via Paul Hammond:

   Tsync is a user-level daemon that provides transparent synchronization for one or more data volumes (directory trees) amongst a set of computers. Tsync uses a peer-to-peer architecture for scalability, efficiency, and robustness, which ensures that each node remains connected with all other connected nodes. The overlay network also provides a scalable means by which a Tsync node can learn about other hosts, besides the bootstrap host with which it was configured. Tsync uses strong authentication and encryption: hosts authenticate each other using the OpenSSH RSA-key authentication mechanism, and all data is encrypted using the symmetric key cryptography.

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5. Victor Davis Hanson: 60 Years Later: Considering Hiroshima, via LGF. Finally getting to read this.

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6. Joseph Scott’s Blog » MS Office 12 To “Support” PDF:

   In looking at this from the reverse angle it sounds like documentation on how Microsoft has managed to ignore an overwhelming number of customer requests “for years”. Not something that I would really brag about.

   Ouch.

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