Since the landing of NASA’s rover, Curiosity, on Mars on Aug. 11 (Earth time), I have been following the incredible wealth of images that have been flowing back. I am awestruck by the breadth and beauty of the them.   Read more... read more...

Pabst Brewing Co. is battling giants in the beer market and its secret weapon may be more nimble IT. That reality means legacy systems are being swapped for cloud services at a rapid clip.

Kathleen Nichols and Van Jacobson have published a paper describing a new network queue management algorithm that, it is hoped, will play a significant role in the solution to the bufferbloat problem. "CoDel (Controlled Delay Management) has three major innovations that distinguish it from prior AQMs. First, CoDel’s algorithm is not based on queue size, queue-size averages, queue-size thresholds, rate measurements, link utilization, drop rate or queue occupancy time. Starting from Van Jacobson’s 2006 insight, we used the local minimum queue as a...

On February 16, Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake announced private beta testing for Pinwheel, an online "Flickr for Places" type of service. Fake sent me an invitation to try out Pinwheel and answered a few questions about her new project, which is built and powered by Linux and open source solutions.