Bloat – Wiki – Bufferbloat
Monday, January 31st, 2011a project to fight a "buffer bloat" problem, or in general to fight various problems on broadband links causes by ISPs
/ by Jim Gettys, one of the authors of X and HTTP/1.1 )
Archive for January, 2011
The Weakness of Taliban Marksmanship – NYTimes.com
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011An interesting article about small arms skills and marksmanship of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The articles suggests that those skills are low, and offers plausible explanation, but it nevertheless works OK for Taliban
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011Criticism (a fair one, IMHO) for IPv6 from DJB
Tanks, But No Tanks – By Maj. Michael Waltz | Foreign Policy
Monday, January 24th, 2011Article about current armored vehicle usage policy in Afghanistan
Talking to the Taliban about life after occupation | World news | The Guardian
Monday, January 24th, 2011also see: Part I: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/24/the-taliban-troop-london-jihadists
and Part II : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/25/taliban-afghanistan-prison-special-report
Asia Times Online :: NORTHERN LIGHTS, A shadowy new battlefield
Monday, January 24th, 2011article about political situation in Northern Afghanistan, information about Taliban, fragments from an interview with a taliban commander
Big Green Complete | Bissell
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011possible replacement for my Bissell Carper Machine Pro Plus
The Dubai Job: Big Issues: GQ
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011story about how mossad conducted an assassination of hamas leader in Dubai
Determining computational complexity from characteristic `phase transitions’, "Nature’1999 , .PDF
Friday, January 21st, 2011an article in Nature journal for 1999 about P=NP problem
How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink – Frameworks for Thinking People
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Notes about facebook internal PM process (release, builds, QA, deployments, management, etc)
… Interesting that they manage to do their work like a small startup team, even thought they are #1 site on the Net and have ~ 2K employees.