drizzlein/computers

What a funny way of saying about computers and computer professionals.

From the page: "The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled. Although at £4,000 it is beyond the reach of most consumers, the high-performance processor could become invaluable to universities and medical institutions. The desktop workstations are built with innovative NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), which are capable of handling simultaneous calculations usually relegated to £70,000 supercomputing 'clusters' that take up entire rooms."

From the page: "Worldwide spam is down 66% since this past Tuesday, November 11, 2008, after two ISPs said enough! and pulled the plug on a California hosting company."

Ubuntu, undoubtedly today's most popular Linux distribution has been around for 4 years. Its first official version was released in October of 2004. In the span of four years, Ubuntu has already unleashed 9 stable versions including the recently released Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex". Let's take a visual desktop tour of Ubuntu starting from its inaugural versions.

Interesting blog about iCloud platform on Tumblr.

From the page: "Optimize the Organization, not the Project
Lean Software Development has taught us an important lesson: don't focus on local optimization! Optimization should take place at the project level, not at the level of individual people, processes or components. But as I said, running many small projects is similar to simultaneously developing many parts of one big project. You should not try to optimize the development of the individual parts in a project. You should optimize the entire project. And in our case, with fifty small projects, the entire project = the entire organization. Therefore, I believe we should optimize the organization, and not the individual projects."

From the page: "So what are you really using today. Is it a phone, a laptop, or a desktop. Is today's laptop tomorrow's luggable? You bet it is, because what you're using today is a computer, it's better, it's smaller and it does it all. Even more exciting than that, it does it from anywhere."