http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbadNtNOYcQ#t=6m30s – prelekcja Wojciecha Sumlińskiego ; miedzy innymi studium niszczenia czlowieka, bagno systemu sadowniczego i nierozliczonej przeszlosci.
wd [and other vendors] sell green drives; they are reasonably cheap but have annoying tendency to spin down very very quickly. i bought recently 2x WD20NPVT-00Z2TT0 with intention of using them [in very unprofessional fashion] in PERC6 RAID1 array.
from time to time i have to upgrade different types of firmwares in PCs – sometimes it’s bioses, sometimes raid/network/ssd firmware. until now i was either burning cd-rw with iso provided by the vendor or making some bootable usb pen-drive with free-dos or sth similar. but i stumbled on this one and it worked surprisingly ... Read More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msHJLwYWX30 – Attack of the Drones: Is war becoming a video game Obama’s Rules For Assassinating American Citizens number of killed by dronesa in Pakistan [hm… arent Pakis ‘the good guys’?]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGBM4WngZT4 – commodities / futures markets; seen from all the three ends – speculators, produces and consumers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU – vpro – Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box
i got another chance to visit Asia. instead of suffering cold, dark and cold January in Sweden i’ve spent 3 weeks in mild Hong Kong & Macau, tropically hot Singapore and pleasantly warm Vietnam.
talks that were most interesting for me: political: not my department russia’s surveillance state enemies of the state technical hacking cisco phones milking the digital cash cow – [in]security of the contact-less cards Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation – you know all those cool kids going out going to clubs, ... Read More
i’ve been thinking about working remotely for a few weeks from some warm[er] country for quite some time. finally i’ve tried – i’ve spent 3+weeks in Portugal while taking just 2 days of holidays. all went surprisingly well.
talks that were interesting to me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72QBJOc1RSw – Mike Nolet ~ From Zero to 500k QPS in Three Years: Scaling AppNexus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHN_rDj6z-M – Andrew Miklas ~ Ensuring the Call Goes Out – Everytime – ha/failover headaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCfuKZUyTko – Tom Daly ~ The Architecture Behind Super Fast DNS – Routing, Redundancy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym96Z-sThZU – Surge 2012 ~ ... Read More