• Twitter Updates for 2009-12-19

    #uksnow rg27 0/10 #uksnowman http://bit.ly/7GTb0t 🙂 # http://bit.ly/6Fsoao Government slammed for ‘snowman skills shortage’ HT @chaostocosmos #uksnowman # Why does #chromium for mac use one process per tab, PLUS one process that multiplexes ALL flash in ALL tabs? Point defeated, much? # If you have not seen the 7-part review of ThePhantomMenace, you must. It's

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  • My contribution to #uksnowman

    IMG_7418 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I’m astounded that nobody else has done this yet.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-18

    @futureidentity you mean http://bit.ly/6gZpQF ? in reply to futureidentity # Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense http://bit.ly/95tQ7 # yesterday it was snowing. Today one of my neighbours is mowing the lawn. # @pfuetz …below that it will suck, unless you like me are

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-18

    @futureidentity you mean http://bit.ly/6gZpQF ? in reply to futureidentity # Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense http://bit.ly/95tQ7 # yesterday it was snowing. Today one of my neighbours is mowing the lawn. # @pfuetz …below that it will suck, unless you like me are

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  • Experience with #Xen on #OpenSolaris: SUCKAGE ANALYSIS, + The Non-future of Xen & VMWare

    After my Linux Suckage posting this can be dealt with relatively easily; so I will include analysis below to make up the shortfall in effort. I have two non-Mac x86 machines at home – a AMD x64 server running OpenSolaris, and a old Thinkpad. The AMD is a file server and one does not like

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-17

    ITS SNOWING! # #uksnow rg27 2/10 # #uksnow rg27 4/10 # @benmarsh any hope of larger 'flakes' on big map? Snowfall-reports are being lost against satellite cloud imagery. Or use "terrain" map. # http://bit.ly/4PqsKY – and while they are at it, charge multiple license-fees for homes with 2+ TVs # "no requirement […] to show

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  • Facebook, Google, Privacy, the BBC, the decade and Edward Stourton

    A review of “Defining the Decade – A Googling We Go” on iPlayer – which will be available for the next 6 days, if you missed it: It is described: Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which history has been put on fast forward. There has been a revolution in the

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  • Experiences with #Xen on #Linux : SUCKAGE ANALYSIS

    [I would provide more links but I can’t be arsed to go dig them up again. See my recent twitter stream for some of them.] 1) Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic All the xen-tools and stuff install nicely from the repository, but there is no Xen kernel provided. None. At all. You have to go wading through

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-16

    @dogsbodyorg my experience of VMware was much the same, last week. http://bit.ly/6VlW1k in reply to dogsbodyorg # Let's install #debian to get past #ubuntu's inability to #xen. First up, Debian wants a driver for an non-free "ipw2200" # Apparently that's my Thinkpad wireless card; Goodness how kind of #debian to save me from nonfree software

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-15

    http://is.gd/5mNJE this is kind of cool, thanks to @simonw # i've invented a brand new timezone # WANTED: FAQ / howto document for setting up and running Xen on OpenSolaris. Assume technical familiarity with Solaris 🙂 # a totally uber airmiles hack – http://bit.ly/6M3mf8 via @adriana872 # Having messed with #xen on #linux (#ubuntu dom0)

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-12

    Question for API developers: What do REST interfaces usually do to "HEAD" requests ? #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-12-11

    Amazed that the "feed://" pseudo-url that Apple forces on people, is not more widely understood as 1) Apple's fault and 2) a bad thing # @katzmandu basically yes, without the presumption of the format… in reply to katzmandu # have you seen this cat? http://themineproject.dyndns.org:9862/get/n/cat (testing vurls) # Power outage chez muffett # http://twitpic.com/sxwjv winchfield

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