trying to convince my disbelieving wife that “galactic wash” jeans existed as a (misguided) fashion statement in 1986-87, i searched google for “galactic wash” (quoted string). get this: 3 hits. that’s it. i’m shocked. this was a product made by levi’s. during the jr. high “acid wash” jeans phase, levi’s tried to extend their success, but only…

as if to prove a point, someone wrote a linux filesystem driver (in python!?!) to front a single gmail account. not that i’m suggesting it, but davfs seems like the ideal candidate for someone trying to do the same to another large webmail provider. cadaver has been used for this, in the past. i validated that it works, last year. great, and i was…

i started an index of filesystems, awhile back. afs, bfs, cfs, dfs, etc.. while looking for other peer-to-peer backup/storage systems, today, i ran into this. there’s a reference to bfs in there. it is described as: This project is aimed at developing algorithms and implementation techniques to build practical Byzantine-fault-tolerant systems, that is, systems that work correctly even when…

combine this with an indexing system and par and you’ve got a pretty robust mechanism for duplicating xdrive‘s basic functionality. i’m still more intrigued by peer-to-peer backup systems. examples i’ve found are: pStore, an mit paperdibs, a python-based package using a custom erasure correcting implementationdbs, an abstract at ucalgaryexercising dhash with distributed backup[.ppt], another mit thing built on chordsecure distributed document…

here’s some concrete evidence that my worst fear may already have come to light.

i previously posted the bay-area terrestrial radio stations i listen to. it’s worth mentioning kexp and kuoi. they’re both good streaming alternatives to the poor fm reception i get in my office.

my worst fear incarnate — Web E-Mail: The New Hard Disk (Jeremy Zawodny’s blog)

gizmodo points out that the new portable media center edition have shown up on amazon for pre-order. i ran mce on a desktop at work until i tried to update to a beta, two weeks ago and ran into a 48-bit LBA problem on the 160G drives that i’ve got in there. i liked the UI and prefered…

here’s proof that drugs and shockwave flash don’t mix. note the titles of some of these (“gangascope“). the author has kindly inluded source. it’s too bad i have no desire to learn flash. the domain name (phong.com) makes me want to grab a newer pov-ray and play with all the features added since i knew it….

i just ran across hackingnetflix. it makes my hacks look trendy. one of the articles in there states that national penetration is at 1.8%. nicole and i had debated/wagered on this number a year or so back. neither of us would have thought it would be even close to this successful.