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Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage

http://robert.accettura.com

Robert Accettura's personal tech blog, discussing web/software development and general internet and tech topics.

• Added on: Dec 8th, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: raccettura
• Listed in: Web Development Programming
• Tags: Software internet mozilla developer programmer robert accettura

Recent Posts

• Thoughts On Chrome OS

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 20:29 in google, reliability, google chrome, chrome os

  Chrome OS is an interesting idea, though I still don’t see it as revolutionary like some people. To me it’s still a terminal but unlike the VT100 uses web standards. Regarding reliability, in my opinion you’ve added new points of f...

• Water On The Moon

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 12:21 in google, space, logo, NASA, moon, lcross

  There was pretty interesting news yesterday that NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impact did find evidence of water on the moon. Equally if not more interesting is how quickly Google jumped on the news: Copyright ...

• 5 Years Already?

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 18:16 in Firefox, mozilla, firefox-1.0

  Has it been 5 years already? The landscape has certainly changed since 2004. I think it’s finally accepted that something can fight back against Microsoft. Size doesn’t guarantee market share on the Internet. In the pre-www world you...

• Yahoo Traffic Server Open Sourced

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 20:07 in Networking, web development, yahoo, open source, infrastructure, scalability, inktomi, traffic server, reverse-proxy

  Way back in 2002 Yahoo acquired Inktomi who was largely know for their search products. Their software powered some early search engines like HotBot in the pre-Google days. One of their lesser known products was something called Traffic Server. Ev...

• WhiteHouse.gov Goes Open Source

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 12:21 in politics, flash, video, Barack Obama, open source, drupal, mozilla, cms, whitehouse, html5, jquery

  I noted in January that WhiteHouse.gov relaunched for the Obama administration using a closed source infrastructure (it was using ASP.NET on IIS 6.0) running a proprietary CMS. It has now relaunched using open source Drupal. Also interesting is that...

• Apple Kills ZFS Support

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 10:59 in apple, open source, gpl, cddl, filesystem, zfs, hfs+, btfs

  I mentioned over a year ago that Apple was porting Sun’s ZFS file system to Mac OS X. While it was available as read-only on Leopard it seems to have been completely pulled from Snow Leopard. For something that was suspected to be the future ...

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