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What Happened to Japan’s Electronic Giants?

Posted on April 17, 2013 by James Briggs

BBC has an excellent analysis of Japan’s decline in consumer electronics title, “What happened to Japan’s electronic giants?” According to Tokyo-based economist Gerhard Fasol, “the Japanese giants were overtaken by the digital revolution. The Japanese giants actually built their empires … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2012, Portland

Posted on July 20, 2012 by James Briggs

Back to Portland for the 2012 O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) @oscon. The main themes this year were: looks like 2012 is the year that the Redhat GlusterFS distributed filesystem really takes off. Gluster is the first DFS ready for … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: The Story of Gluster

Posted on February 1, 2012 by James Briggs

At Silicon Valley Users’ Group (SVLUG) tonite, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO Gluster, Inc. gave a great talk on “The Story of Gluster.” The name “Gluster” was derived from the words “GNU” and “Cluster.” No relation to the Luster filesystem, … Continue reading →

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BIND and DHCP Open Day, Menlo Park

Posted on January 14, 2012 by James Briggs

I went to ISC’s BIND and DHCP Open Day in Menlo Park. There was a good turnout, with about 30 outside attendees and about the same of ISC staff. 3 BIND developers from the Czech and Chinese registrars also attended, … Continue reading →

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Small URL Generator in F5 iRule

Posted on July 31, 2011 by James Briggs

One of the funniest technical articles I’ve read in a while: Small URL Generator (in F5 iRule): Part 1 Part 2 What could possibly go wrong? wikipedia: F5 Networks says, “iRules: a TCL-based scripting language allowing arbitrary manipulation of traffic … Continue reading →

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