As many of my regular readers know, I’m an open-source VoIP hobbyist, and as such, I’m a "member" of the Toronto Asterisk Users’ Group (I use the quotations because the group does not have membership requirements nor is it a formal organization per se). One of the hot topics recently on the TAUG mailing list [...]
Popular political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon was on CBC Radio One’s The Current this morning discussing his new book, The Upside of Down. His work warns of the potential downfall of Western civilization along the lines of the demise of the Roman Empire. Although this might seem like a very gloomy topic, he makes the key [...]
It’s been a rough 48 hours for those of us at CBC.ca Operations. As you can see from the posted notice, a failure of the primary storage device hosting most of the site’s content has knocked out most of the website. Tod Maffin has posted a reasonably complete explanation on Inside The CBC, and I’m [...]
This month in ACM Queue there’s an interesting and lengthy article entitled The Long Road to 64 Bits, which addresses why, fifteen years later after the 64-bit MIPS R4000 was announced, most systems are still not fully 64-bit clean. I use the word “clean” to mean that most systems do not run entirely in 64-bit [...]
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