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Paul Graham – Disconnecting Distraction: „After years of carefully avoiding classic time sinks like TV, games, and Usenet, I still managed to fall prey to distraction, because I didn’t realize that it evolves. Something that used to be safe, using the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. Some days I’d wake up, get a…

John Viega – Why geeks don’t like to run AV: „Even though I owned development for McAfee’s anti-virus technology, I did not run it at all the entire time I was there, even out of company loyalty. I did run a process NAMED the same as our AV that just fork()ed and slept, so that…

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Nati Shalom – Private/Public Cloud: „It is clear that to make IT operations more effective, it doesn’t make sense to run all the applications that are currently hosted in a company’s data center in the private cloud. […] Disaster recovery sites require us to double our resources, let alone the cost associated with maintaining two…

Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar – Daddy, Where’s Your Phone?: „What do you mean, where’s my phone?“ She explained that she’d overheard the question. Why wasn’t he just looking up the answer on his phone? Out of the mouths of babes. Vic said that he realized in that moment that the era of the PC…

The Fat Man – How do You Avoid The Muse? Let’s make a list…: „Pretty much everybody out with whom I hung would have emphatically jumped through unthinkable flaming hoops to have access to a 24-track recording device and a microphone or two–it would have been like…living in the Realm of the Gods. […] Now…

Jon Simpson – The depths of OS X: SIPS: „That solution is sips. The “scriptable image processing system” by self-description and a tool built right into Mac OS X, using all of the format support and output support available to the OS. sips -s format jpeg test.png –out test.jpg“ Here’s the Apple man page for…

Grant Ingersoll – Congrats to Tika and Welcome to the Lucene Stack!: „Tika is a content extraction framework that wraps many other content extraction libraries such as PDFBox, POI, and others into a single, easy to use framework that makes it easy to add extracted content to Lucene, Solr and any other text application.“