• ZFS. Respect.
  I'm looking forward to ZFS on Mac OS X.
  (tags: filesystem opensource storage zfs)
• Towards Moore's Law Software: Part 3 of 3
  (tags: languages future programming dsl)
• Getting started with distributed Erlang - Mnesia table relocation
  (tags: database erlang mnesia distributed programming)
• Connecting languages (or polyglot programming example 1)
  (tags: erlang integration java programming)
• Peter Seibel on syntax, part one
  (tags: programming presentation syntax video peter-seibel)
• Sequence and Order in Erlang
  (tags: programming erlang)
• Stroustrup: Programming -- Principles and Practice Using C++
  (tags: book c++ programming)
• The Search for the Source of Data - How SimpleDB Differs from a RDBMS
  (tags: amazon aws ec2 simpledb scalability programming database)
• Windows Vista, 7, and Singularity: The New Copland, Gershwin, Taligent
  (tags: windows microsoft)

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• Don't Smoke
  This picture reminds me a lot of my grandpa in his final days, dying in the hospital from lung cancer caused by smoking and working around asbestos. :~(
  (tags: smoking health death cigarettes)
• An Engineer's Guide to Cats
  Two professional engineers illustrate the proper care and practical benefits of cats.
  (tags: video humor cats engineering education advocacy)

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I've been thinking more about the problem of monitoring an email server. I'm thinking of writing a program to help me make sure a mail server I don't control is actually receiving email.

Any ideas?

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• Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software
  Freedom disables networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time, freeing you from Internet distractions, allowing you time to code, write, or create. A reboot is the only circumvention.
  (tags: procrastination osx mac network internet lifehacks productivity)
• O Notation via Calculus
  (tags: complexity calculus integral programming math O algorithms)
• The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector
  My Linear Algebra teacher devoted an entire lecture to the math behind Google's PageRank algorithm. I think this was his Become a Mathematician Elevator Pitch. People certainly paid attention during that lecture!
  (tags: algorithms google mathematics programming matrix eigenvector pagerank)

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