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title: links for 2007-08-21
date: 2007-08-21T05:24:55Z
modified: 2007-08-21T05:24:55Z
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  - Links
timestamp: 2007-08-21T05:24:55Z
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  - Links
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- [IBM and Sun, sitting in a tree, S-O-L-A-R-I-S-I-N-G at Pensieri di un lunatico minore](http://blog.amber.org/2007/08/16/ibm-and-sun-sitting-in-a-tree-s-o-l-a-r-i-s-i-n-g/)
    
    “Honestly? I think it is one of the few times I’d say “win-win” applies. IBM isn’t the company they were 20 years ago, and Sun is obviously not either. Next up? Solaris on z/Series. You think I’m joking? It’s already started.”
    
    (tags: [ibm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ibm) [sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sun) [solaris](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/solaris) [oem](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/oem) [x86](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/x86) [zseries](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/zseries))
- [IBM Expresses Interest in OpenSolaris for System Z Project | Sine Nomine Associates](http://sinenomine.net/node/607)
    
    “The OpenSolaris for System Z project has continued to make substantive technical progress since its inception in July 2006 and the progress report presentation SNA gave at the IBM System Z Technical Exposition in April 2007.”
    
    (tags: [ibm](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ibm) [sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sun) [solaris](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/solaris) [zseries](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/zseries) [porting](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/porting) [sinenomine](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sinenomine))
- [Blue Crab Abundance at Churbuck.com](http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/?p=1310)
    
    If you study a bucket of crabs…one intrepid crab will stand on its tippy-toes, get a claw onto the handle…and begin to pull itself up…towards freedom…every time the crabs below it reach up, grab the escapee, and pull them back into the doomed mob
    
    (tags: [bluecrabs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/bluecrabs) [crabbing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/crabbing) [davidchurbuck](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/davidchurbuck) [naysayers](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/naysayers))
- [Kitchen Soap » Blog Archive » Making a site faster by removing machines](http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/08/20/making-a-site-faster-by-removing-machines/)
    
    Flickr consolidating from regular boxes to quad-core machines (migrating from Dell to HP in the process)
    
    (tags: [flickr](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/flickr) [consolidation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/consolidation) [multi-core](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/multi-core) [dell](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dell) [hp](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hp))
- [The Detroit Cobras :: This Week In Denver- Denver Events,](http://thisweekindenver.com/calendar/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=4057)
    
    if i was in Denver, i’d be going
    
    (tags: [detroitcobras](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/detroitcobras) [denver](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/denver) [bluebird](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/bluebird))
- [Selling software that sells itself: An interview with Matt Asay – LinuxWorld](http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/081607-matt-asay-interview.html)
    
    caught this via Cote: Matt’s fired up about adoption of the GPL
    
    (tags: [mattasay](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mattasay) [gpl](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gpl) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [alfresco](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/alfresco) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [model](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/model))
- [License](http://www.netbeans.org/cddl-gplv2.html)
    
    i thought this was still in the discussion stage, but apparently not. interesting.
    
    (tags: [netbeans](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/netbeans) [licensing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/licensing) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [gpl](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gpl) [ide](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ide) [cddl](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cddl) [duallicensing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/duallicensing))
- [GNOME: Ten years of Freedom!](http://perkypants.org/blog/2007/08/17/gnome-ten-years-of-freedom/)
    
    i’m very late with this, but congratulations to GNOME, and more importantly, a sincere thank you: the GNOME folks have provided my desktop for better than three years now, and it just keeps getting better
    
    (tags: [gnome](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/gnome) [jeffwaugh](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jeffwaugh) [desktop](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/desktop) [anniversary](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/anniversary) [10](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/10) [years](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/years) [congratulations](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/congratulations))