Hit & Run for Thursday 17/11/2005

Heading to Boston for a friend's departing-the-blue-cloud party.

I don't know what to make of the new ZFS filesystem from Sun for Solaris/ OpenSolaris. Here's a flash tutorial. Via ongoing.

ZFS presents a pooled storage model that completely eliminates the concept of volumes and the associated problems of partitions, provisioning, wasted bandwidth and stranded storage. Thousands of filesystems can draw from a common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it actually needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all devices in the pool is available to all filesystems at all times.

I guess my most immediate question is how open is the OpenSolaris license?

Ate dinner with some friends last night. In between recalling days in Baker 168 at CMU, they recommended a photo site they've been using: Phanfare. I'm a flickr fan (phan?) myself, but Phanfare apparently also supports video, so I plan to look into it over the next couple of days.

Top on my to_read list at del.icio.us:

• Chinese build a high-tech army within an army
• Tagging by Bloggers, a Small Study
• On the 15^th birthday of the World Wide Web, a look back I wish I could say I remember the www being invented, but I was likely too busy with grad school to notice. Besides, everyone just knew that Gopher was the be-all, end-all.
• Identity as a service

My current projects are: dripldu: sort of social notification meets frequent flyers meets social networking. Not a dating service. YaSoBoTo: Yet Another Social Bookmarking Tool: sort of back-burnered for now, but basically bookmarks + ratings + site statistics, all rolled up nicely for people looking for marketing data. Spotmarket.tv: marketplace for spot advertising also somewhat backburnered given Google's entering-not-entering the space. Basically a marketplace for spot advertising on cable systems.

I'm also winding down a couple consulting gigs.