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July 31, 2008  10:14 PM

Overheard: How do you spell spam? K-N-O-L



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Google, Technology

jonathan_bailey.jpg The end result is that it is not a matter of if Knol will be spammed, but when it will happen and...

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July 31, 2008  6:30 PM

Overheard: Cuil will soon be a verb that nobody knows how to pronounce



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
David Berkowitz, Search, SEO, Technology

david_berkowitz.jpg The search engine's launch was such a spectacular flameout that it may well go down as a verb. "What...

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July 31, 2008  10:10 AM

Overheard: Justin Gehtland and continuous integration



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Justin Gehtland, Programming, Software development, Technology, unit testing

justin_gehtland2.jpg All development teams (read: more than one programmer) have to deal with integration builds....

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July 30, 2008  12:09 PM

Overheard: Jack Kelley designed the first mouse pad



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology

jack_kelley.jpg Jack Kelley designed the world's first mouse pad in 1969, when he worked at the Stanford Research...

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July 29, 2008  9:34 PM

Overheard: UMPC is ‘out’ – MID is ‘in’



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
handheld computer, Mobile Computing, UMPC

mid.jpg Intel began to deemphasize the term UMPC in the Spring of 2008 and now prefers talking about "MID," the Mobile Internet...

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July 29, 2008  11:18 AM

Overheard: Heartbeat is the brains



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
DRBD, Linux, Linux HA, Mark Schoonover, Storage

markschoonover.jpg Heartbeat is the brains used to automate all the steps needed to determine if a node is down, and run...

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July 28, 2008  1:55 PM

Overheard: Social components are a GMOOT (get me one of those)



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Geek and Poke

toughbusiness.jpg Thank you to Geek and Poke cartoons, Creative Commons License

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July 28, 2008  10:56 AM

Overheard: Version control best practices



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Programming, Subversion, version control

anders_sandvig.jpg Many developers are sloppy about commenting their changes, and some may feel that commit messages are...

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July 27, 2008  1:55 PM

Overheard: Version control comments



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology

goodcomments.jpg Thank you to Geek and Poke cartoons, Creative Commons License

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July 26, 2008  12:16 PM

Overheard: i-9/11



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology

lawrence_lessig.jpg There’s going to be an i-9/11 event, an event that demonstrates the instability of the Internet,...

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