Linkdump

Behind on posting…interesting tidbits:

* We have slid to dangerous depths of presidential hatred in this country – hear hear – let’s leave mudslinging to where it belongs: college football discussions. * Cuban on hard drives vs dvd. seems on target to me. * LarryO on the consequences of hiding true network behaviour from applications. this, it seems to me, is why high-level network programming abstractions like rpc and dcom never really caught on, and why very simple protocols like http did catch on. * Movalog -- all things MT. * Rich’s guide to debugging machine instability – the first link is really good, a set of tests for burn-in testing of a new machine. * What is the coolest thing you learned this year? Crap I need to come up with an answer to this soon. * Sony to put PS2 chips in TVs. And i bet MSFT wants to put chips in TVs, as well as a bunch of other companies. TV/tuner evolution is becoming interesting. * MSFT SP2 distribution – why not just a torrent? * The GMail filesystem. Cool. * Emachine shop. Custom fabrication of your parts over the internet.