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inode diet

July 20, 2009

Default inode allocations for ext3 can be excessive, and result in a lot of wasted disk space.

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Wolfram Alpha

July 13, 2009

The UI disaster that is Wolfram Alpha.

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Last night I dreamed of mainframes

July 10, 2009

This week saw the 40th anniversary of IBM CICS, the Customer Information Control System. It had 7 releases before being re-engineered as CICS TS (Transaction Server); CICS TS has just seen the release of version 4.1. I’m going to take a guess that they don’t use agile software development methods in the CICS department at [...]

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