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Thu Jan 17 21:28:42 2008 GMT: Sun to Acquire MySQL
Thu Dec 27 21:47:03 2007 GMT: Trennen sich Alcatel und Lucent wieder?
Sun Dec 23 22:28:48 2007 GMT: Economist's Three Fearless Predictions
There are a few things worth pointing out in Economist's Three fearless predictions: the article claims that "the biggest road-hog remains spam (unsolicited e-mail), which accounts for 90% of traffic on the internet". That figure doesn't sound plausible - according to P2P growth creates battle for bandwidth e-mail only uses a few percent of the total internet traffic, while P2P eats up more than three quarters of all traffic (what the author was probably trying to say is that spam accounts for 90 % of e-mail traffic).
BTW, the other point worth mentioning is: "No question, [Ubuntu] Gutsy Gibbon is the sleekest, best integrated and most user-friendly Linux distribution yet. It's now simpler to set up and configure than Windows."
Sat Dec 15 12:51:00 2007 GMT: Amazon SimpleDB
I am just wondering where Amazon's SimpleDB could be useful. The main problem I am seeing is the high latency to access the database in combination with it's extremly simple (i.e. limited) query language which will result in extra round-trips as you will have to move more query logic into the application.
Other concerns include API overhead an their pricing model (as you can't know how expensive queries will be in advance).
Sun Nov 25 21:44:27 2007 GMT: Visual C++ 2008 Express
Last week Microsoft released the free Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition which now also comes with the Platform SDK, but it still doesn't include ATL (Active Template Library) or MFC. These are only included in the Standard Edition (or higher) of Visual Studio. Yet, the ATL appears to be included in Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK.
So far, I haven't really been able to figure out what's new in Visual C++ 2008 (in particular in terms of the C++ compiler) - appears to be kind of a closely guarded secret as the MSDN web-site isn't of much help in this regard either. Apparently, it's easier to find information on what's not yet included in the release than on what is actually new.
Mon Nov 12 19:00:06 2007 GMT: SEO Link Builder
So what does an SEO Link Builder do? Apparently, surfing the web and contacting blog owners to persuade them to add advertising or at least links to their blog. Well, I just got an e-mail from an SEO Link Builder who has apparently found my blog via Ministry of Propaganda: Blogging Abroad and asked me to blog about the "great" products of a VoIP service provider (or alternatively at least add a link to their web page). Interestingly, he didn't offer anything in return: no free call package, nothing. Very strange...
I have e-mailed back to ask for permission to publish his original e-mail, but I doubt that he will get back to me.
Sat Nov 10 22:24:12 2007 GMT: swindon.gov.uk
What happened to the Swindon Borough Council web site? At the moment, I am only getting a "Welcome to NetNames" parking page. A whois lookup doesn't return much useful information, but the DNS SOA record (ns1.netnames.net. hostmaster.netnames.net. 2007110910 10800 1800 3600000 21600) suggests that NetNames has changed to zone on Friday.
Thu Nov 01 20:09:30 2007 GMT: Alcatel-Lucent's Q3 Results
Sun Oct 28 11:28:27 2007 GMT: High Scalability
Sat Oct 13 10:56:23 2007 GMT: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Tue Oct 09 20:44:06 2007 GMT: AOL Pictures
Fri Oct 05 18:21:43 2007 GMT: Beware of Zombie Threads
