All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Zune. I finally got to play with a Zune media player. I am very impressed, I own all the generations of iPod, but this device is clearly a step up in terms of innovation. I can confirm that the enthusiasm in some of the earlier reports have good grounds. I have had many gadgets, but in the past two years except for the PSP nothing could really excite me, the Zune however is different at so many levels.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 26, 2006

As of today one of the technologies developed internally at Amazon is available on sourceforge as an open-source project. From the Carbonado docs: Carbonado is an extensible, high performance persistence abstraction layer for Java applications, providing a relational view to the underlying persistence technology. Persistence can be provided by a JDBC accessible SQL relational database, or it can be a BDB.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 4, 2006

Jeremy Zawodny has some interesting calculations on the absolute cost advantage of using S3 for your home backup server. For me however the most compelling argument is later in his posting when he mentions the administrative cost of running a highly available home server. I recently lost 2 disks in my home raid setup rendering the 1 TB data store useless.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 31, 2006

J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton - The Road to Econdido - November 7 The Stranglers - Suite XVI - November 7 (I got it from the UK last month) Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny - November 14 (Check out the NSFW video by Kricfalusi) Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt - November 14 (Rerelease from 1996) Tom Waits - Orphans - November 21 (3 Discs: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, including covers from the Ramones and songs from Brecht and Weill) The Casino Royal soundtrack will be released on November 14.

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