a hungry brainBill Maya's Radio Weblog(Untitled)- April 7, 2004 Google is a single, very large custom computer. Fascinating! From Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power: QUOTECompetitive Advantage Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer. It's running their own cluster operating system. They make their big computer even bigger and faster each month, while lowering the cost of CPU cycles. It's looking more like a general purpose platform than a cluster optimized for a single application. While competitors are..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/07.html#a2878 (Untitled)- April 7, 2004 Spymac beats Google to the 1G free email punch. A small Mac-related web hosting site offers a free gig's worth of email. The company promises no adwords or other forms of promotion linked to email contents. Instead, they're using the free service to promote Web hosting and auction services. Link to announcement on Spymac site, Link to related News.com story. (via Batelle, thanks also Jean-Luc) Boing Boinghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/07.html#a2875 (Untitled)- April 7, 2004 Train Your Own Replacement Slashdothttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/07.html#a2874 (Untitled)- April 7, 2004 Customer demand for a ubiquitous InfoPath runtime. The last time I asked Microsoft why there's no plan to make the InfoPath runtime ubiquitous, the answer I got was: "We don't hear customers asking for it." Well, I do. Here's a typical rant from one customer who, because his company has a relationship with Microsoft that he doesn't want to jeopardize, asked me to anonymize his comments: I believe a primary requirement of a forms application is to make it possible for the form to be completed...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/07.html#a2873 (Untitled)- April 7, 2004 Gorilla Glue. General purpose glue Cool Toolshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0100443/2004/04/07.html#a2872 |