mosh seems interesting, but is missing the most obvious client platform: iOS.
Keywords like roaming, intermittent connectivity and such just scream “ssh replacement” on iPad.
Jan 142013
Jan 102013
Nicely illustrated interactive latency graph for cache, memory, network and disk access.
Dec 302012
Most computer gaming/hardware/whatever magazines have slowly but irrevocably turned into vehicles of consumption, only rarely do they contain anything singnificant on creating something or understanding things any deeper than the surface.
The new marshall in town, Skrolli (in finnish), aims to correct that.
The zeroth issue (a four-pager .pdf) is out already, and the first proper magazine should see daylight in early 2013.
Oct 032012
The idea of using an existing social network as a secure transport for arbitrary messages sounds like an April IETF surprise, but Privly is a genuine product now available for multiple browsers and social networks.
Sep 032012
Cory Doctorow’s The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing is well worth reading, despite its unorthodox and distracting use of background images.
Sep 012012
Getting your digital life erased sounds like a plot from a B-class late nineties thriller.
But that’s exactly what happened to Mat Honan.
Fortunately the combo of a remoted wipe and a lack of backups didn’t turn out to be a permanent loss; there was a way to recover the content.
A happy ending, and a pointful reminder to back up at least semi-regularly.
Apr 022012
Missed the annual World Backup Day yesterday.
And definitely need an improved solution for backups at home, a loose USB-connected half a terabyte disk just doesn’t cut it.
Feb 022012
The Restart Page collects boot sequences of various operating systems.
Some of which are seriously nostalgia-inducing, others complete mysteries.
Dec 072011
Yeah, sometimes the topic is so hard that the answers are corrupted under pressure.
Aug 212011
Charles Stross’ USENIX keynote wasn’t exactly the usual.
Aug 132011
As XKCD notes, the ever-accelerating use of brute force means that length trumps complexity when it comes to passwords.
Jul 242011
The technology news sector is pretty much over-crowded already, but that doesn’t worry the crew of thisismynext, soon to be rebranded as the verge.
Jun 052011
On Friday, as the markest closed, Apple was worth more than Microsoft and Intel combined.
Jun 042011
Jun 032011
Termkit looks like an ambitious yet rooted-to-reality project. Will be interesting to take it out on a spin when it reaches distributable maturity. But as old habits die hard, I don’t think I’ll be able to abandon the traditional command line for this.
May 092011
Leafsnap is “an electronic field guide”, an application that identify tree species in photographs.
Right now the application is limited to the trees of New York and DC, but set to gradually expand to cover the entire united states.
Nothing short of impressive, and bound to expand to other plants (and hopefully other regions) as well. Animals might be more challenging, mainly on account of the suboptimal optics the modern phones are saddled with.
May 092011
Raspberry Pi is an impressively ultra-low cost ($25), miniscule (USB-key sized), yet unexpectedly high-specced computer.
The man behind this wondermachine is David Braben, one of the parents of the extremely influential Elite.
May 022011
Groklaw, the geekiest lawsite on earth quits in mid-May.
Jan 052011
From 1642 to 2009, Barbara Flueckiger’s timeline covers the evolution.
Jan 042011
Jan 032011
110 slides is a daunting read, but these guys do have a decent track record in previous years. Then again, with a full hundred predictions, some of them are bound to hit the mark.
Nov 242010
Nov 012010
Kevin Poulsen takes on the accomplishments of Lisbeth Salander, the geek girl icon from Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy.
The verdict: far less preposterous and bogus than most other depictions of hackery.
Oct 162010
Augmented reality is so noughties, let’s move towards a future where annoyances can be automagically removed.
Aug 292010
According to Eric Schmidt “mankind generates as much data in two days as we did from the dawn of history until 2003″.
The relevant big number is five exabytes. And user-generated content is to blame.
Earlier in the game: people will soon be changing their names to escape an embarrassing digital past.