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<< 2008-05 >>

• 2008-05-30: How to manage outbound email.
• 2008-05-30: A grocer's that sells unpackaged goods.
• 2008-05-30: Paul Vixie blocks free email providers.
• 2008-05-29: Joe Armstrong's standard Erlang lecture.
• 2008-05-29: The Labour loans scandal turns into a crisis that may bankrupt members of its national executive committee.
• 2008-05-28: Redundancy vs. dependencies - which is worse?
• 2008-05-28: HPC considered harmful.
• 2008-05-28: Sun "Lively" Javascript environment.
• 2008-05-28: FixMyStreet Cambridge RSS feed.
• 2008-05-27: The Economist on data centre energy use.
• 2008-05-27: Same-day money transfers come to the UK.
• 2008-05-25: Schroedinger's Cat.
• 2008-05-25: Some wet cats.
• 2008-05-23: Dual-head X11 RandR configuration.
• 2008-05-23: FreeBSD dev summit in Cambridge in August.
• 2008-05-23: RPC under fire.
• 2008-05-23: The future without IPv6.
• 2008-05-23: Bram Cohen's recommended version control practices.
• 2008-05-23: The CPS slaps the City of London police over the Scientology "cult" case.
• 2008-05-22: ESPN on Sam Whittingham and the HPV land speed record.
• 2008-05-22: Unbound - fast recursive cacheing DNS server.
• 2008-05-21: Broadband service infrastructure in Cambridge.
• 2008-05-21: Russ Cox on the stupid Debian OpenSSL vulnerability.
• 2008-05-21: DJB's pty program.
• 2008-05-21: Mark Crispin laid off by UW.
• 2008-05-20: Paul Vixie on the L-root decommission weirdness.
• 2008-05-20: GnuTLS remote execution vulnerabilities.
• 2008-05-20: An account of the Estonian Internet war.
• 2008-05-20: ICANN on the L-root DNS server decommission weirdness.
• 2008-05-20: The long, painful history of time.
• 2008-05-20: SOCA fails to keep NHTCU going, so Home Office will fund a replacement.
• 2008-05-20: Source of the famous "now you have two problems" quote.
• 2008-05-20: Blackboard Mac - cool!
• 2008-05-20: Erik Naggum's brilliant anti-XML rant.
• 2008-05-20: Erik Naggum on XML, Lisp, and "enamel".
• 2008-05-20: UK government wants to log all phone calls and emails.
• 2008-05-20: Channel 4 successfully sues police for libel after being accused of exaggerating Muslim extremism.
• 2008-05-20: Steve Bellovin on SPF.
• 2008-05-20: Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology a cult.
• 2008-05-20: MailChannels traffic control available free for small sites.
• 2008-05-20: How to have a narrow keyboard.
• 2008-05-20: IBM model M clicky keyboards.
• 2008-05-20: Evoluent - interesting keyboards and mice.
• 2008-05-20: Home-made weather balloon experiment.
• 2008-05-19: Achieving line rate on a 10Gbit NIC.
• 2008-05-19: Which social network web sites are popular where?
• 2008-05-19: Thunderbird Lightning calendaring component.
• 2008-05-16: California supreme court overturns gay marriage ban.
• 2008-05-15: Concrete syntax for objects: domain-specific language embedding and assimilation without restrictions.
• 2008-05-15: Context-aware scanning for parsing extensible languages.
• 2008-05-15: Bashing twitter, or twittering bash?
• 2008-05-15: XKCD on randomness.
• 2008-05-15: Dilbert on randomness.
• 2008-05-14: An interesting approach to peer review.
• 2008-05-14: Evan Martin and I discuss format strings etc.
• 2008-05-13: An older stupid Debian security vulnerability.
• 2008-05-13: Ben Laurie on a stupid Debian security vulnerability.
• 2008-05-13: A sensible literary theorist. (Who'd've thought?!)
• 2008-05-13: MUTO: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. (amazing!)
• 2008-05-13: The "no dashes or spaces" hall of shame.
• 2008-05-12: One method at a time is quite a waste of time.
• 2008-05-12: 1000 blank white cards.
• 2008-05-12: An interview with Cliff Click (Java JITter).
• 2008-05-12: Java 6 performance white paper.
• 2008-05-12: A more self-defeating man with an angle grinder.
• 2008-05-12: Angle grinder man.
• 2008-05-12: "Something you had, something you forgot, something you were."
• 2008-05-11: C++ draft standard.
• 2008-05-11: eBay's lack of effective anti-fraud enforcement starts to hurt business?
• 2008-05-11: How Sun failed to apply experience from Objective C to Java.
• 2008-05-09: Heal warts with duct tape.
• 2008-05-09: Illegal mistreatment of asylum seekers by the Home Office.
• 2008-05-09: Nice password advice posters.
• 2008-05-08: Unvaccinated child dies of preventable disease.
• 2008-05-08: Igudesman & Joo.
• 2008-05-08: Rachmaninov had big hands.
• 2008-05-08: Defunctionalization at work.
• 2008-05-08: Discussion thread about co-operative DNS cacheing.
• 2008-05-08: The death of the SUV. (hooray!)
• 2008-05-08: Web 2.0 developers' cluelessness about Internet hosting.
• 2008-05-08: GreenFS: making enterprise computers greener by keeping their disks off most of the time.
• 2008-05-07: An ex-professor from Dartmouth who deserves to lose.
• 2008-05-07: Session startup mobile optimizations for XMPP.
• 2008-05-07: The eggcorn database of malapropisms.
• 2008-05-07: Black market prices of phished data.
• 2008-05-06: Making the compilation "pipeline" explicit: dynamic compilation using trace tree serialization (October 2007).
• 2008-05-06: Efficient just-in-time execution of dynamically typed languages via code specialization using precise runtime type inference (September 2007).
• 2008-05-06: Incremental dynamic code generation with trace trees (November 2006).
• 2008-05-06: HotpathVM: an effective JIT compiler for resource-constrained devices (June 2006).
• 2008-05-02: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (Nebula award winner by Ted Chiang).
• 2008-05-02: What's expected of us (by Ted Chiang).
• 2008-05-02: Richard Morgan on sfnal infighting.
• 2008-05-01: Extending the scope of syntactic abstraction in Scheme.
• 2008-05-01: Syntactic abstraction in Scheme.