Monday, December 12, 2011

load01 12/12/2011

  • tags: misc

  • Yes I know you are really happy with your “persistent” Key Value store. But did anybody notice hstore that comes along Postgresql. I find Postgresql to be a really great RDBMS that has been ignored all the time. It even has some great publisher/subscriber system as well (or LISTEN/NOTIFY in terms of Postgresql) that a lot of people may have implement using Redis, RabbitMQ etc. For people who have not lived anything other than MySQL. I would simply ask them to try out Postgres.

    tags: programming

  • Despite all of its warts, I like working in Linux. I've used it for 15 years and I've never been as productive in another environment. Most people claim that it's the configurability of Linux that keep the users coming. That may have attracted me at first, but what attracts me now is its programmability.

    Let me be very clear. I'm not saying that Linux is great because I can patch the source code to grep and recompile it. In all my years of Unix, I've never done anything like that. And I'm not saying that Linux is a great workstation for programmers because it helps you program better. Those are topics for another essay.

    tags: programming

  • It’s back. The story of the worm that ate the Pentagon just won’t go away.

    The attack of the Agent.btz worm, dubbed “the most serious breach of the U.S. military’s classified computer systems,” is getting another telling, this time in the Washington Post. The story adds new details about the intrusion — and reveals that some in the military wanted to use “offensive tools” to remove the malware on overseas and civilian networks. But the article still doesn’t uncover anything that justifies the hyperbole that the government has used for this breach since it was first uncovered.

    Danger Room broke the story in November 2008 that the Army got

    tags: technology

  • tags: programming

  • How I feel almost every night. (i.imgur.com)submitted 9 hours ago by brillo90 to funny202 commentssharesavehidereport

    tags: humor

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