All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

On the A9 Developer weblog there is an article today on he SiteInfo feature that was until now only available when you used the A9 Toolbar. They now have developed a Firefox extension that will give you the same functionality. Normally the siteinfo tab gives you the Alexa information about a site: traffic ranking, reviews, etc.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2006

Halley Suitt, now CEO of Top Ten Sources, has a way of talking me into doing things where I actually have no time for. This time it was giving her a list of my top ten weblog feeds. This is an impossible task as I don’t think there is such an absolute list, but try and explain that to someone who runs a company called Top Ten Sources.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2006

I have to admit that one of the reasons for my “January Recommendations” posting was to experiment with the Amazon.com associates program. Associates earn up to 10% of the purchase if they drive traffic to Amazon.com and the customer actually places an order. Not that I was expecting to make any money of this, but I was interested in seeing what the experience is for an associate if s/he needs to create a collection of links, and how good the tools are for tracking the results.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2006

Modeling systems has always been part of the toolkit of the computer scientist. We often try to bring systems back to simple queuing models to understand throughput and latency questions, and then use those results to predict resource usage and drive allocation. Can one actually be confident that such a simple model can accurately reflect reality?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Today the Senate hearings on Net Neutrality took place. The details of the testimonies are online. I believe that everyone who has a vested interest in seeing business and service innovation continue to flourish on the internet should be concerned about the proposal for access-tiering introduced by the last-mile broadband vendors.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2006

Because of my absentmindedness last year I forgot to point to another writer that has joined the public Amazon/A9 weblog family: In december Claire Giordano of opensolaris fame joined A9 as director of product management. Please visit Claire's Alternate Version of Reality.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2006

The programs for 2 conferences with mainly operating and distributed systems contributions are online now: 1st EuroSys Conference, April 18-21, 2006, Leuven, Belgium 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation (NSDI’06), May 8-10, 2006, San Jose, CA With 58 papers between the two conferences the systems research field appears to be very healthy.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2006

GO HAWKS!

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