--- title: links for 2009-08-31 date: 2009-09-01T01:02:12Z modified: 2009-09-01T01:02:12Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/08/31/links-for-2009-08-31/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 2947 categories: - Links timestamp: 2009-09-01T01:02:12Z tags: - Links --- - [Cisco Won't Take on Amazon in Cloud – PC World](http://www.pcworld.com/article/167640/cisco_wont_take_on_amazon_in_cloud.html) which begs the question: is that the right decision? (tags: [cisco](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cisco) [amazon](http://delicious.com/sogrady/amazon) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [systems](http://delicious.com/sogrady/systems) [businessmodels](http://delicious.com/sogrady/businessmodels)) - [Open Source Contract Considerations | alexking.org](http://alexking.org/blog/2009/07/01/open-source-contract-considerations) had this one open for a long while: excellent advice from a practitioner (tags: [alexking](http://delicious.com/sogrady/alexking) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource) [contract](http://delicious.com/sogrady/contract) [ip](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ip) [contracts](http://delicious.com/sogrady/contracts) [legal](http://delicious.com/sogrady/legal) [indemnity](http://delicious.com/sogrady/indemnity) [infringement](http://delicious.com/sogrady/infringement) [warranty](http://delicious.com/sogrady/warranty) [patent](http://delicious.com/sogrady/patent)) - [appscale – Project Hosting on Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/appscale/) more and more folks are discovering this project (tags: [appscale](http://delicious.com/sogrady/appscale) [appengine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/appengine) [googlecode](http://delicious.com/sogrady/googlecode) [paas](http://delicious.com/sogrady/paas) [cloud](http://delicious.com/sogrady/cloud) [opensource](http://delicious.com/sogrady/opensource)) - [Love The iPhone A Little Too Much – All Tech Considered – Technology News And Culture Blog : NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2009/07/love_the_iphone_a_little_too_m.html?ft=1&f=102920358) the good news is that we both have iPhones (tags: [iphone](http://delicious.com/sogrady/iphone) [npr](http://delicious.com/sogrady/npr) [relationships](http://delicious.com/sogrady/relationships)) - [MySQL at Facebook in Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/mysqlatfacebook) interesting project. need to keep tabs on this one. (tags: [mysql](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mysql) [facebook](http://delicious.com/sogrady/facebook) [markcallaghan](http://delicious.com/sogrady/markcallaghan) [rdbms](http://delicious.com/sogrady/rdbms) [community](http://delicious.com/sogrady/community) [drizzle](http://delicious.com/sogrady/drizzle) [mariadb](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mariadb)) - [Gambling, sex, Asperger's and my twin con-man brother – The Globe and Mail](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gambling-sex-aspergers-and-my-twin-con-man-brother/article1269317/) very odd story, but compelling in a weird way (tags: [aspbergers](http://delicious.com/sogrady/aspbergers) [confidence](http://delicious.com/sogrady/confidence) [schemes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/schemes) [con-man](http://delicious.com/sogrady/con-man)) - [Eyecandy Themes for Ubuntu – Download via Launchpad PPA Repo and be safe | Ubuntu Manual](http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/177/eyecandy-themes-for-ubuntu-download-via-launchpad-ppa-repo-and-be-safe) some very nice themes for Ubuntu: i've switched from Dust for the first time in a long while (tags: [linux](http://delicious.com/sogrady/linux) [ubuntu](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ubuntu) [gnome](http://delicious.com/sogrady/gnome) [themes](http://delicious.com/sogrady/themes) [eyecandy](http://delicious.com/sogrady/eyecandy)) - [Twitter’s Golden Ratio (That No One Likes To Talk About)](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/twitters-golden-ratio-that-no-one-likes-to-talk-about/) this is one reason i follow comparatively few people; it's just not sustainable, if you want to keep track of the people that matter to you. problem is that this causes you some issues when people get upset you're not following them. (tags: [twitter](http://delicious.com/sogrady/twitter) [ratio](http://delicious.com/sogrady/ratio) [socialnetworking](http://delicious.com/sogrady/socialnetworking) [dunbar](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dunbar) [usage](http://delicious.com/sogrady/usage) [followers](http://delicious.com/sogrady/followers) [friends](http://delicious.com/sogrady/friends) [etiquette](http://delicious.com/sogrady/etiquette)) - [Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts – Drizzle Developer Meeting Wrapup](http://krow.livejournal.com/653549.html) for those tracking the project (tags: [drizzle](http://delicious.com/sogrady/drizzle) [brianaker](http://delicious.com/sogrady/brianaker) [developer](http://delicious.com/sogrady/developer) [meetup](http://delicious.com/sogrady/meetup)) - [Swine flu could hospitalize 2 million in U.S. this winter — latimes.com](http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-swine-flu25-2009aug25,0,1109674.story) this could get ugly. we don't have capacity for that. (tags: [swine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/swine) [flu](http://delicious.com/sogrady/flu) [influenza](http://delicious.com/sogrady/influenza) [disease](http://delicious.com/sogrady/disease)) - [In Maine, a Rivalry Boils Up On the Lobster-Boat Racing Circuit – WSJ.com](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125115648215255195.html) and you guys thought Lobster Boat racing was a joke. 64 MPH. on water. (tags: [lobsterboat](http://delicious.com/sogrady/lobsterboat) [racing](http://delicious.com/sogrady/racing) [maine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/maine) [wsj](http://delicious.com/sogrady/wsj)) - [Are Algorithms the Magic Bullet? – Caleb Elston](http://calebelston.com/are-algorithms-the-magic-bullet-0) magic bullet might be pushing it, but not by much (tags: [algorithms](http://delicious.com/sogrady/algorithms) [statistics](http://delicious.com/sogrady/statistics) [math](http://delicious.com/sogrady/math) [data](http://delicious.com/sogrady/data)) - [Apple kicks ZFS in the butt](http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=584) an interesting – and dare i say questionable – decision on Apple's part. what's their next generation file system story going to be? and couldn't have ZFS have helped with Time Machine? (tags: [apple](http://delicious.com/sogrady/apple) [zfs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/zfs) [sun](http://delicious.com/sogrady/sun) [filesystem](http://delicious.com/sogrady/filesystem) [timemachine](http://delicious.com/sogrady/timemachine) [snowleopard](http://delicious.com/sogrady/snowleopard) [mac](http://delicious.com/sogrady/mac) [filesystems](http://delicious.com/sogrady/filesystems)) - [ELPA: Install](http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html) package management for emacs? cool. too bad it's outdated. (tags: [packagemanagement](http://delicious.com/sogrady/packagemanagement) [emacs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/emacs) [elpa](http://delicious.com/sogrady/elpa) [packages](http://delicious.com/sogrady/packages) [installation](http://delicious.com/sogrady/installation)) - [Emacs copy/paste and X « The Lumber Room](http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2006/10/22/emacs-copypaste-and-x/) i have this problem pretty continually. pain in the ass. (tags: [emacs](http://delicious.com/sogrady/emacs) [copypaste](http://delicious.com/sogrady/copypaste) [x](http://delicious.com/sogrady/x) [linux](http://delicious.com/sogrady/linux) [bug](http://delicious.com/sogrady/bug)) - [The Web is the most successful, fantastic virtual machine on Dion Almaer's Blog](http://almaer.com/blog/the-web-is-the-most-successful-fantastic-virtual-machine) hadn't thought about it this way, and i'm not sure the analogy works completely, but it's interesting to consider (tags: [dionalmaer](http://delicious.com/sogrady/dionalmaer) [virtualization](http://delicious.com/sogrady/virtualization) [web](http://delicious.com/sogrady/web))