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Interesting (and informative) videos
10 Things about Hard Drives: Also check out the guy’s YouTube page, because it contains two other interesting videos from the domain of data recovery (and he seems to be somebody who actually knows what he is talking about when it comes to hard drives, not like some other people). Tyler Pitchford – They Took…
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Fun little game
From the All About Linux blog: spot the differences between the two picture. The right image is divided in 9 (3 by 3) regions, and you have to click on the region which contains the difference. The rule: don’t pause during play. Start below:
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PostgreSQL musings
First, a very good article about creating (and maintaining!) data clustering with PostgreSQL. This made me think: wouldn’t it be nice if the automated tuning wizards would give you a short article to read which discusses the proposed solution instead of just the “turn knob X” type of suggestions? Also, Percona is hiring performance experts,…
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The Amazon Mechanical Turk
A good series of posts from the “A Computer Scientist in a Business School” blog on the topic of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (and using it to solicit reviews of products): Soliciting Reviews on Mechanical Turk Time Out New York and Mechanical Turk Is it unethical to pay for reviews? Monitoring the Dynamics of Mechanical…
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Getting full contents for partial feeds
In my opinion partial feeds are not feeds. While I understand the need to get pageviews, I don’t like it. My time is valuable and I don’t want to hop between Google Reader and other browser windows to read the content. Disclaimer: this method might or might not be a violation of some laws, TOS,…
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Heavy Metal Band Names Etymology
Found it via the Comic vs Audience blog. Created by Doogie Horner:
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Quick Google Reader technical tip
I was looking for a way to export the complete feed (all the incoming elements) from Google Reader. I rather quickly found out that you need the session cookie and that trying to use basic auth wasn’t going to cut it. I found a rather old post about the topic, but none of the advices…
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Wonky security posts
I was reading two security blog posts recently from security vendors which seemed a little “off”: The first one was from Avira talking about a great new feature: as I understand it, in the new version of their product if an application is permitted by the Application rules of the firewall, the port rules are…
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Start offering solutions
Some time ago I’ve read two blogposts from security vendors: The Oldest Un-Patched Microsoft Vulnerability from the ESET blog (makers of NOD32) and Consumers deserve less intrusive products from the McAfee Security Insights blog. Both of them were complaining: On the ESET blog Randy Abrams was complaining that autorun is a vulnerability. I would ask…
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Mixed links
chycho.com seems to have a lot of cool videos, like this one: Just a reminder why you should never talk to the police: Some good advice to protect yourself. Of course this is just applicable in the USA to citizens (so it is not applicable to a large percentage of the people on so many…