The LEO Computers Society celebrated today with a lunch of at the Science Museum. The first regular business application used within the world was used 60 years ago today. This was the LEO computer, built and deployed by J Lyons and Co, to manage the operations of their tea-shops. It completely took over the Bakery …
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Nov
16
2011
Prediction proved: SSDs now cheaper than hard disks
In my previous post “Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?“, I posited that the floods in Thailand would increase the price of traditional spinning media so that it would rise above the cost off SSDs (or at least make the move to higher performance storage systems easier to justify. With the following …
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Nov
14
2011
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target to get stuck into it a little more. It has been previously been believed that adding buffers across a network to help mitigate against packet …
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Nov
05
2011
Happy anniversary – Android is 4 today
I can’t quite believe that the android platform is already four years old. (well I can, since the recent Android 4.0 (Ice-Cream Sandwich) announcement.) Google were expected to make an announcement about the pending gPhone to take on the iPhone, but instead announced the Open handset alliance, and the Android operating system as a core …
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Nov
01
2011
Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?
With ASUS announcing that it will run out of hard disks at the end of the next month [via theregister.co.uk/], since new ones are not being produced in enough numbers to meet demand. In this scenario, prices are rising sharply. An example of the price increase of hard disks is this WD 2TB disk on …
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Oct
25
2011
Riverbed Stingray
The recent acquisitions by Riverbed of Aptimize and Zeus (to provide A to Z coverage?) have now been integrated into the Riverbed family. See “Riverbed goes shopping for godly web performance” for details of the acquisition announcement. So now as well as the Steelhead WAN optimization appliances, the Whitewater cloud storage optimization appliances, there is …
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Oct
25
2011
RIP – John McCarthy
Computing is losing a generation of legends. Following the recent deaths of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie, today I learnt of the death of John McCarthy. From Facebook, Philippe Khan (who I had the pleasure of working for a time) wrote: RIP John Mc Carthy. I consider John’s original work as defining Artificial Intelligence. Practically …
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Oct
16
2011
On losing a diamond, and gaining a lion
I’ve not blogged about the events in Wootton Bassett over the past few years, in part because I’ve taken a stand (similar to many in our town), that what we do is a personal response to the fallen members of our armed forces as they are repatriated through RAF Lyneham. Today, the town has been …
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Oct
13
2011
RIP – Dennis Ritchie
It must be getting to that point in computing’s history, as it appears that the pioneers are passing from the world. Sometimes it’s all to easy to forget that computing didn’t really start until the early 60′s. Before this point, we had a lot of interesting hardware platforms (such as Babbage’s difference engine), but the …
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Oct
06
2011
RIP – Steve Jobs
Just over a month ago, I asked “Has Jobs really left the core of Apple?“. Today, sadly, it is certain that he has. In the news, pictures show the Apple (APPL) offices at 1 Infinite Loop with the flags at half mast
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