Comments for Beyond Abstraction

Comment on Disabling file access time updates using noatime in OS X by Fredrik Poller

Fredrik Poller — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:14:09 +0000

Hello,

I’ve written an article on how to optimize Mac OS X for SSD drives. The article covers how to enable noatime for FileVault filesystems using a script and login hooks.

http://poller.se/2010/08/optimizing-mac-os-x-for-ssd-drives/

Comment on No Recorder Found? by Jan

Jan — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:18:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing! It is still a piece of good information 2.5 years later… Had the same error, and based on your post I quit Parallels Desktop running a VM of Win 7. And… it worked!

Comment on Red Hat RHN SSL certificate verification error by Ger

Ger — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:26:24 +0000

Thanks, I was running into this problem and it turns out that the date was wrong..

Thanks again!!

Greetings,
Ger.

Comment on Disabling file access time updates using noatime in OS X by paulo

paulo — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:18:26 +0000

nice tip pal. I was trying to tune everything here and I didn’t find how to set noatime for my root disk. thanks very much.

Comment on Social Networking vs. Social Matrices by Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:34:19 +0000

Baaaahhhh. Baahhhh. Me sheep. Must facebook. Must flock like sheep. Bahhh. Must be Black Sheep.

Comment on Old Vaio by Alex

Alex — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:30 +0000

Can I upgrade the RAM on my FS660 or is it limited to 1gb?

Comment on Social Networking vs. Social Matrices by Ross

Ross — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:30:55 +0000

One element that I think interleaves with what you’ve said, but I’m not entirely sure how the social matrix addresses it. One reason I imagine that people would use this jump from one site to another as a chance to “prune” their friends: though our relationships grow and change, we perceive there to be something vulgar about the notion explicitly “pruning” our social networks: when I find that someone from my past is no longer in a place in life where I can relate to him, it’s easy enough to stop making the effort to be a friend. What’s very hard is to tell someone to their face that you’re just not that into them. That’s why we give fake phone numbers to one-night-stands (I’m told). “Un-”friending someone is making an explicit decision, and in the world of social networking sites, it’s a decision that you post to the world, sort of shouting from the digital treetops, “Hey, I don’t like you any more!”, which feels bad to hear, and also feels bad to do. So we hang on to the “obsolete” facebook and myspace “friends” we no longer want, because it’s easier to keep them around than to make the positive decision to stop being someone’s friend.

I recall many many moons ago, there was a proto-social-networking site called “6 degrees”. Its offerings were meager bny comparison to proper Web 2.0 social networking; it let you specify email addresses and relationships. But the thing about 6 Degrees was that relationships had to be reciprocal: if you said “this person is my friend”, it sent an email to that person, demanding that they either reciprocate your friendship, or deny your claim to it. It would send an email that said something like “Jon Doe has requested to reclassify your relationship to him from ‘Acquaintance’ to ‘Friend’. If you agree to this assessment of your relationship, click here.”

At the time, I couldn’t help thinking that, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cute to ask someone out by requesting a reclassification from “friend” to “signifigant other”. Almost immediately, of course, the terrible other side of this occurred to me: “Jane Doe has requested to reclassify your relationship from ‘Signifigant Other’ to ‘Just Friends’.”

I never went back there again.

Comment on Social Networking vs. Social Matrices by spencer

spencer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:40:30 +0000

Becky, that is exactly the point, more control over *your* networks. This is not about changing your life. Rather controlling the social network that contributes to your life.

And that lack of perfection: I don’t know if perfection is achievable. But creating groups, and assigning coarse-grained access to the those groups is beyond the reach of most users. Which is where implicit social information flows can come into play.

Comment on Social Networking vs. Social Matrices by Becky

Becky — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:35:25 +0000

Hmmm, interesting…..did I miss it somewhere in the article, what is this new social site in the works that will change my life, lol.

For the record, I personally went from Facebook, to myspace, then back to FB. Never did friendster or any of that.

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and, clearly you are missed the memo, if it changes how I will interact with people online, that IS changing my life, ha.

in all seriousness though, that is why I went back to FB from myspace ~ more control over networks, who can see what, etc. not perfect, but better than just designating a profile as public or private.

Comment on PS3 hypervisor partitioning by Exodus

Exodus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:09:11 +0000

The hypervisor should be done away with. It is doing nothing more than bottlenecking a powerful OS.