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Category: Internet & Culture

Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new  businesses, fueling innovation  and creativity.

All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.

  • #BBS Ad, ca. 1995

    #BBS Ad, ca. 1995

    Note the “We are connected to” section. #BBS Ad for Mailbox "Cartassia Prime"
    Very obviously, Internet was not very popular back then and lists under “coming soon”. While email and internet was available to Universities before, the “Deutsche Telekom” and others only started around the same time to commercialize internet access as a consumer product.

  • USB MixTape

    It’s a pity, I devoted myself to the cloud… Here is a “USB MixTape”, A USB Flash Drive That Looks Like a Vintage Cassette Mixtape.

    via LaughingSquid.

  • Arrived SFO

    San Bruno AveYesterday, actually. Haven’t been to San Francisco or Palo Alto yet, but jet lag hasn’t allowed us to go anywhere other than the hotel. Which happens to be in San Bruno, south of San Francisco, outside the SFO airport.
    First meetings are going to happen this afternoon, leaving some room for getting over the jet lag a proper breakfast, some calls with our timezone.

  • 10 Myths of Enterprise Python

    PayPal Engineering Blog: 10 Myths of Enterprise Python.

    via ycombinator.

  • Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges

    For the sake of having this here. Manipulating bits in memory is a big deal in multi-tenant virtualized and cloud environments, aka public cloud. Unfortunately this is a hardware issue and not something that a software patch will solve. Only new physical deployments can solve that problem. So rowhammer will be a nightmare for a while…

    via Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges.

  • Firefox 36 supports HTTP/2

    Firefox Release Notes.

  • OWASP Internet of Things Top Ten Project

    Ich bin das Polizeiauto.The OWASP Project is looking at the Internet of Things, too, and published a top 10 of security concerns for that matter. While all of this is reasonable for the Internet of Things, it can be applied very generally for the Internet of anything. Good security pays in every environment, it’s just the Internet of Things has potentially more attack surface.

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  • Don't aim for disruptive

    DisruptiveThe tech industry is optimizing everything around us, disrupting every aspect of social, business or whatsoever. The thought everything will be easier is just so tempting to everybody remotely involved in anything remotely digital. And that’s why so many app-developers, start-ups, evangelists feel inspired by the opportunity. Every new idea needs to be ground breaking, revolutionizing. And that’s why that concept of “disruptive” became so popular, even while interpreted fundamentally wrong by this group of technologists.  Clayton M. Christensen who coined the term, explored development of disk drives and described generational change in the technology, each disrupting the market of the previous generation.Winter Wonder Land However, none of the following generations of disk drives was designed as “disruptive“, but to have advantages over the previous one. (more…)

  • 15 years neumeier.org

    neumeier.org is 15 years old today.

    Domain Name:NEUMEIER.ORG
Domain ID: D19886705-LROR
Creation Date: 2000-02-15T13:24:23Z

  • Everybody should code.

    Just read a blog that made quite an argument against the education of coding. The core argument cited Henry Ford with hist famous saying, if he had listened to his customers, he should have built a faster horse. The derivation in this argument is, that with everybody able to code we, as an economy, are continuing what we are doing, only faster, but in reality need a car.

    However, the derivation is based on the assumption code was for apps alone. Using Henry Fords citation as an argument against learning to code, is like saying “Education in engineering is wrong because it will just produce more engineers doing their engineering thing”.

    While it is true, not everybody needs to be an software engineer, not everybody needs to be a mechanical engineer, either. Still everybody today taking a drivers test (in Germany, [1]) will have to be prepared to answer fundamential technical questions. These include questions for tires, lighting, breaks, steering, liquids and liquid levels, as well as the meaning of indicator lights. It makes using a car more convenient for the consumer, just as it makes driving a lot safer for the rest of all road users.

    Today, all work disciplines are confronted with computers in one or another way. Code is the integral ingrediant that makes them work. In computer engineering, there are different levels of code, that are more or less abstract to the bare machines. Just above machine language, patterns emerge that repeat all across all applications one can think of. May it be loops, conditions, basic algorithms to bother the comparison once again, are the equivalent basics of steering, liquids and breaks.

    A basic understanding of how these machines work should be as fundamential as the ability to read, write and math, without which the car wouldn’t exist. It will allow us as an economy to built the next “car”.

     

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