Comcast testing DNSSEC for customer use

Interesting article in Ars Technica about how Comcast has started making DNSSEC available for customer testing. I've set my gateway to use the servers and it's working just fine. If you're a Comcast customer, you might want to try it out.

Open Source Easter Eggs

Well, it's almost Easter and here's a cool article from Ars Technica about Open Source Easter Eggs :)

Gaming and AI

For those who haven't read Daniel Suarez's Daemon, it's an exciting and riveting read. Some of the extrapolations in the book are becoming eeriely accurate; for example, see the following IEEE Spectrum article.

Cloud Storage Drivers

On-line collaboration services are well-suited for hosted storage within the cloud. Services like on-line groups, blogs, wikis, and the like will easily drive the growth of cloud storage, since it's accessible from anywhere, allows storage consolidation for all client types, scales uniformly, and can be backed up easier than locally-hosted storage.

Cloud Storage that makes sense

An interesting article about Ubuntu One cloud storage. One possible application: A bookmarks app, which allows your Firefox bookmarks to be shared and managed among all the computers you use.

Supercomputing the Opteron way

Interesting article regarding Cray Computing's capture of "top dog" of the supercomputer list.

I really like the performance of the AMD x64 dual-core processor in my Compaq V3000CTO notebook, it's still fast after all those Win XP and MS Office patches.

VirtualBox rocks!

I suppose I'm the last one to board the train, but I've recently been test driving VirtualBox and found it to be a slick freeware virtualization solution. It rocks!

A couple of fun articles

Here's a couple of fun articles (with useful information to boot!)

1. Feature-By-Feature: Ubuntu 9.10 Vs. Windows 7 (Tip: Just click past the opening ad).


2. Buy A New Windows 7 System, But Please Don't Upgrade

Enjoy :-)

Forgiveness

Sometimes, I hear things so remarkable that I have to share them with others, so bear with me.

In today's church service, the pastor shared this statement:

If you withhold forgiveness, it's like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die!

Wow; that's profound! It was a great sermon; if you'd like to check it out, visit the WVPC website and select the Sep 20, 2009 message, "Six Words that will Change Your Life".

The Perfect City

I like David Byrne's quirky way of looking at things. Check out his article on "the Perfect City", it's an enlightening and enjoyable read.