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Monday, November 18, 2002 |
 Very pretty sunset at the CalTrain station in San Francisco this evening. Don't think I'll be getting up for the Leonids...Comments 10:44:42 PM 
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In-Q-Tel is has hot deals, a rarity in the Valley at the moment, which are attracting the likes of Kleiner, Perkins and other blue-chip partners. In-Q-Tel can help introduce startups to government defense-oriented agencies, one of the few markets that is still spending money. They also help startups pair up complimentary technologies... Comments 3:19:25 PM
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Is the universe a computer? Could it be that everything in it, is information being manipulated by the universal program? You can make the case that life is data (DNA), but some quantum theorists think atoms are, too in this article from this month's Wired. This seems to jibe with much in Wolfram's new book, too... Comments 1:12:46 PM
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Venture capital and the Net is this fortnight's column in The Independent. Can the venture capital flow ever be made more efficient...? Comments 12:28:25 PM
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Bizarre DDoS 'attack': Like most startup people, I wear a lot of hats, including de facto webmaster at my company, in which role I noticed a huge spike in hits on our server. Indeed, we received 26,000 requests for non-existent content from 120 different hosts: it looked like a zombie attack, where many compromised zombie computers are programmed to clobber a target server.
A little detective work, though, and we discovered that a porn site that resells its content to other adult sites had put an erroneous link on their site: they had mistyped an IP address, resulting in an unintentional 'attack'. The good news was that, a. our server chugged along withou a problem, and b. the porn site's ISP moved quickly to fix it. Earlier I had thought this was referrer spam but it was more complicated than that... |
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Rafe Needleman's take on Shawn Fanning's new venture, Plaxo. Plaxo uses a distributed, server-based network (a la Napster) to keep your contacts updated. Rafe's as mystified as anyone about what the undisclosed business model will look like... Comments 12:00:56 PM
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Forbes on baby boomers: "The bad news (if you're a resentful Xer) is that these boomer-geezers will still be around for quite a while after they retire, forcing you to listen to such "classic rock" fossils as "Stairway to Heaven" another umpteen million times." "Boomer-geezer"? Comments 10:42:05 AM
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Segway Human Transporter for sale on Amazon according to this Reuter's report: it's $4,950 with delivery scheduled for March. So no Human Transporter under this year's Christmas tree... except for 30 lucky people who order before Dec. 16... Comments 10:09:34 AM
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Supercomputer to Use Optical Fibers. The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology plans to use an optical router as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Science] This Linux cluster's network will be faster than its 500 processors... Comments 7:44:08 AM
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Pushing 'smart' computing. Big Blue lays groundwork for autonomic, grid, and utility strategy [InfoWorld: Top News] This should be interesting.. a 'computing' socket on the wall? Comments 7:35:10 AM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:09:15 PM
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