Apparently I’m not the only one questioning the methodology of the whole Yahoo! vs. Google thing. I can’t help it, it’s the scientist in me, but I was pretty sure that it wouldn’t escape too many other people. In fact, Jeremy Zawodny has pointed me to an examination of the experiment in which some of [...]
OK, so in response to claims that Yahoo has indexed twice as many pages as Google, we have A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices, in which the researchers compare the number of results returned for just over 10000 queries and conclude that since Yahoo returns fewer results, it must not [...]
Now available on IBM’s developerWorks (and actually, featured on the home page!): Create a problem determination scenario from scratch: This tutorial chronicles the building of an autonomic computing system that monitors a Java application to demonstrate the ability to detect and resolve issues within the system, a problem determination scenario. In the autonomic computing world, [...]
Some people have a knack for knowing what’s coming next. And some work very, very hard at it. O’Reilly is pretty well regarded in that field, and at OSCON, Tim O’Reilly gave some insight into the numbers that help guide those predictions. Interesting stuff. Technology: trends | technology | Oreilly | open source
The one thing I hate about not running my own server is not having root privileges. It just makes my life a bit more complicated. Fortunately, I can usually get around this little problem. When I started using PHP-Nuke, I figured out how to create my own symbolic links to my own images directory, so [...]