Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult

December 26th, 2010
feel like getting a new keyboard -- check out that article and make sure to read comments

CargoCult.pdf (application/pdf Object)

December 22nd, 2010
Richard Faynman 1974 commencements speech at CalTech, that defined the term "Cargo Cult "

[RUS] Как мы 10Gigabit на Linux роутере маршрутизировали | Linux 10Gb router used in production test on live network

December 11th, 2010

a sea of lead, a sky of slate: Abandoned on Everest

December 8th, 2010
read it, a chilling article [and comments!] about what 'commercialized' mountaineering has become.

Grand Tour of Closet-Sized Crew Quarters in Space – ISS

December 7th, 2010
video tour for living compartments for US crew on board ISS (International Space Station)

Gettys: Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another [LWN.net]

December 7th, 2010
Interesting discussion on LWN about an article describes problem with packet loss on home broadband networks due to improper buffer sizes in various network gear (routers, cable/dsl modems, switches, etc) along the route path.

Google over IPv6

December 7th, 2010
Read here if you have IPv6 connectivity, you can have google services served via IPv6
(i.e., google will reply with AAAA records on queries made from your DNS server)

[RUS] ИЗ ИСТОРИИ РУССКОЙ КУЛИНАРНОЙ КНИГИ > Пиши-Читай > Энциклопедия

December 5th, 2010
short article in Russian about notable cookbooks published in Russian Empire, est from late VIII -> late XIX century

Another WikiLeaks address | SaveWikileaks.net

December 4th, 2010
lists of mirrors for wikileaks

Routers that sypport IPv6 – SixXS Wiki

December 4th, 2010
SixXS -- global v6 network of peering exchange points