Your little start-up Sones (located in Erfurt) made it under the first German 20 start-ups !
I blogged about this election by the INTERNET WORLD Business newspaper some time ago, but now it’s your chance to support us. Just click on the following link and give us your vote
Update: The competition is also [...]
The conference slides and some more content of Defcon16 are available here or as local copy here.
The conference slides of BlackHat 2008 are available here or as local copy here.
The CERN is rapping the Large Hadron Rap:
(via ZEIT)
“The only real problem is scaling. All others inherent are from that one.
If you can scale, everything else must be working.”
MPLS Conference (Nov. 1998) – Mike O’Dell, Chief Scientist, UUNet
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If you are interessed in background information on high-scalabilty web solutions and you are not a religious IBM-, HP-, $wahteverbigcompany-believer highscalability.com might be worth reading for [...]
Michael Ogawa created a small application visualizing the activity of a software repository over the time… very impressive!
Next year there will be another hacker summer camp (in the Netherlands?!) organized by the people behind What The Hack 2005. It’s called Hacking at Random 2009 and I think it’s a must for every Debian user
CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. And sometimes they also hire an art student for an internship:
The Internet, an undergrad project by UCSD graphic art student Jennifer Hsu.
(via: blog.caida.org)
If you are interessed in background information on filesystems and how to implement them, there is a really nice e-book: Practical File System Design by Dominic Giampaolo. The target audience may be more technical people, but he writes very straightforward so even if you only have basic computational survival skills it might be worth reading.
Der Begriff “Bulemie-Learning” ist mit dem Bachelor-Studiengängen aufgekommen: Stoff für die Klausur pauken, dann zur Prüfung wieder ausspucken. Die Präsidentin der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Margret Wintermantel, sagte, der kürzere Bachelor-Studiengang erfordere bessere Betreuung und kleinere Lerngruppen. “Dazu brauchen wir mehr Dozenten. Aber bis heute gibt es kein Geld dafür.” Das Deutsche Studentenwerk [...]
