Underexposed blog: Links of the day
- Rob Bearden of JBoss, Red Hat, and OpenSpan joins Benchmark Capital - Bearden was OpenSpan COO; before that, COO at open-source app server company JBoss, where "he helped architect and execute the company’s business model, managed its worldwide operations, and played a key role in its acquisition by Red Hat Software."
- Take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression - Linux.com - "The mgzip tools that can take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression, while pbzip2 uses multiple cores for both compression and decompression." Interesting–I don’t know how embarrassingly parallel compression is.
- Discover the possibilities of the /proc folder - Linux.com - "This special directory holds all the details about your Linux system, including its kernel, processes, and configuration parameters. By studying the /proc directory, you can learn how Linux commands work, and you can even do some administrative tasks."
- Edward Tufte on the iPhone - A famed observer of the best way to present information (Tufte wrote "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and later bashed PowerPoint) shares his iPhone thoughts. (Link to a video.)
- Processing Noise - Harold Davis - Photographer Harold Davis on shootinga at ISO 6,400 and then processing noise. "Noise can be used as part of the aeshetic of an image…However, I do find I need to selectively post-process for noise with these images."
- Generate KML With Google Spreadsheets - Anything that makes KML easier to create and manage is good news to me. Bring on the geodata.
- Hyperic and Red Hat launch common management system - "The RHQ project aims to develop a common services management platform that will be used in future versions of each company’s product offering."
- Google: The new Sourceforge? | Matt Asay - The Open Road - Google shows some impressive growth in open-source project hosting.
- Firefox 3 on Linux - Chris Blizzard talk - Lots of stats, Firefox 3 details. "Hope to have a Mobile Firefox by end of 2008."
- Bookmarking: The red-haired stepchild of social media - Gordon Haff - "Bookmarking seems to have remained a backwater…In fact, I’m struck that essentially nothing has changed since (2004). 3+ years is an eternity in Web 2.0."
- Marc Fleury going to JBoss World, likes Black Tie project - Fleury still is a big JBoss fan–no surprise, since it’s his baby. Now he’s cheering BlackTie, which he calls "a binary drop-in replacement for (BEA Systems/Oracle) Tuxedo."
- onOne Video Tutorials For Genuine Fractals Photoshop Plugin - "onOne Software has announced the immediate availability of its Photoshop CS3 compatible Genuine Fractals 5 and Genuine Fractals Print Pro 5 Photoshop plug-ins." I just love all this free online training. This kind of thing used to cost money, but now it’
- Reuters photographer unleashes "The Beast" - The perils of using a 1200-1700mm f5.6 IF-ED Nikon zoom lens to photograph Sarkozy during Bastille Day.
Source: CNET News.com - Business Tech
