Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

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dilbert writes automated tests!

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firefox update

Robert has problems with the 2.0.0.5 firefox update.

I've been using it all morning though on my Vista machine, and it works just fine. Maybe its Roberts machine, or a particular addon that is causing the problem.

facebook videos

The "secret" video lives of facebookers: "Oh, and it's easy to add video to your own profile and because you can make it so that just your Facebook friends can see your video it's pretty safe to play around and post some lame video that, if it were on YouTube might just go viral and get you onto the nightly news."

And its not just your own videos. Your friends can share your videos too. For instance, I shared Roberts video as a test, and it shows up on my profile. I'm assuming one of my friends could take Roberts video and share it, even though they wouldn't be Roberts friend. Potential for one of those viral videos.

doskey

I had forgotten about doskey and I read about it somewhere recently which jogged my memory. I love setting up aliases to some common directories on Linux, and was looking to do the same on Windows. This is one way not really sure if its the best way.

doskey wa=cd C:\Users\Adnan\Some\Directory

Now when you type wa, you should change to the directory specified.

You can also specify shortcuts to run programs, for instance:

doskey vi=start c:\progra~1\vim\vim71\gvim.exe $*

Now "vi Autoexec.bat" should start up an instance of vi with the Autoexec.bat file open.

Speaking of Autoexec.bat, it doesn't work in Vista. I got around that by editing the shortcut and adding "/k C:\Autoexec.bat".

There is probably a better way to do this by now. If you know of one, leave it in the comments.

Vista search weirdness

Searching on my Vista box is returning results for files that have been deleted. How often does the index update, and why isn't it removing these files from the index?

Linux Update: Full OpenGL 3D Acceleration for Xen/Vmware/Kvm

Linux Update: Full OpenGL 3D Acceleration for Xen/Vmware/Kvm: "With all the news about Vmware Fusion and Parallels upcoming 3D acceleration capabilities there hasn't been much about the free software projects work in this area."

Gapminder

Data analysis as performance art: "Hans Rosling has been justly acclaimed for a couple of TED talks on global health in which he makes mesmerizing use of his (and now Google's) GapMinder software, which he uses to tell compelling stories with data. The software is very cool, but what really makes the stories come to life is Rosling's narrative. Data analysis, for him, is a performance art."

(Via Jon Udell.)

The Gapminder software is truly amazing. Hans Rosling's first talk was amazing. But he does even better in the second (it includes sword swallowing!).

On Linux

Finally, Robert is seeing Linux in the wild! :)

Can anyone hook him up for an interview with Mark Shuttleworth?

And yes, 2008 is going to be the "year of Linux on the Desktop". I took my laptop to show it to him when he was in Austin at Salt Lick, but didn't get a chance. I'm glad their are others out their now showing up with Linux.

dtrace on Mac OS X?

Robert has an interview up with the creators of Dtrace:



At the start of the interview they mention that Dtrace has been ported to Mac OS X. I knew work was in progress to port it to FreeBSD, but I didn't know about OS X. Wow, OS X now might have ZFS and Dtrace, those are some cool features that you probably won't see on Steve Jobs keynote.

virtual pc and slackware

I installed the recently released slackware 12 in virtual pc, and the install went well. However I had some problems with X. I already knew virtual PC doesn't support 24 bit graphics, so I edited xorg.conf and choose a default depth of 16. However, the mouse doesn't work. The solution to fixing that was editing lilo.conf and adding "i8042.noloop". This fixes the mouse issue. I still have one issue that I need to solve. When quiting X, the system doesn't return to the shell and freezes. I have to do a reset.

Scalability Conf video

Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing



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vmware demo

Hey, finally Robert gets a video of someone demoing in Linux (ubuntu)!

iZoho video

I love these Zoho guys. They seem really fast with coming out with features. Here is their video of their office suite running on the iPhone.



via Scobles link blog

interviewing web 2 style

This is interesting. You don't have to go anywhere to do the interview anymore!



via fastcompany.com/scoble