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Big and small things I’m working on.
The dozens of software projects launched in the wake of Google's Big Table and Map Reduce papers have changed the way we handle large datasets. Like many organizations, the NSA began experimenting with these "big data" tools and realized that the open source implementations available at the time were not addressing some of their particular needs. They decided to embark … Continue reading The Accumulo Challenge, Part I
There’s a disturbing trend in public-interest apps: They’re released for free, but without clear open source licensing or access to source code. I think it’s not that the developers don’t want the apps to be open source — they just don’t think of doing it (and perhaps don’t understand, or don’t know from personal experience, how great … Continue reading Make Your Public Interest Apps Open Source.
Today is their wedding day, and I couldn't be happier for them. With them in mind, I'll post this passage from the Bishop of London's address to Prince William and Katherine: Marriage should transform, as husband and wife make one another their work of art. It is possible to transform so long as we do … Continue reading Congratulations to Erich and Carol
"What has happened is that the old school operator, where you had a three-ring binder and you followed procedures over and over again, frankly, that job sucked. What has happened over a period of time is that sysadmin skill set has been expanding to include more and more basic infrastructure software development. What has been … Continue reading On infrastructure as code.
So we had a bunch of announcements this week. Here they all are, in one place. Hopefully, we don't announce anything on Friday. We announced our Platform-as-a-Service strategy and our plan for OpenShift, which is all part of our Open Cloud. I'd tell you if this was just some boring product announcement. It's not. When I was briefed on … Continue reading This Week in Red Hat
I've been using Remember the Milk to manage my tasks for a while now. It's a mostly good platform. I like the number of possible clients and interfaces it provides. Between lists, tags, and the very powerful Smart Lists feature, RTM makes it very simple to organize some fairly complicated workflows. If you're into that. Which I am.
[This is a writeup I did as a companion to the History of Open Source in Government Timeline. Karl Fogel and I will be presenting more findings from the timeline at OSCON this year.] It is difficult to imagine the Federal government moving in one well-coordinated direction on any matter, and so it has been … Continue reading History of Open Source in Government
As of RHEL 6.2, there are 606 unique domains protected across 245 modules. # yum install setools-console ... # seinfo -adomain -x | tail -n +2 | wc -l 606 # ls -1 /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules | wc -l 245 [via Dan Walsh.]
Life in Austin just got a lot better, now that I'll be a stone's throw from Will and Kerry. So excited for both of them. When Rose meets Winston, it's on like Donkey Kong.
Obviously it's not wrong to use opensource code, especially if you're complying with the license, but next time you hear VMware's marketing team claiming that KVM is an inferior hypervisor because it's based on Linux then you might want to remind them that esx wouldn't exist without it either. via Andrew Cathrow - Google+ - … Continue reading VMware and KVM
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