teh blog of Jim

STOP.
INDEXING.
WIKIPEDIA!

Dear Google,
For several days now, Wikipedia has been excruciatingly slow, to the point of it being unusable. I have heard that this happens when you index it, and I’ve noticed that the latest caches of Wikipedia pages are within the last few days. Knowing this, I have been able to determine that you are currently in the process of re-indexing the free encyclopedia. By doing this you are depriving the world of a valuable resource. Please stop. Instead, I suggest that you buy an xServe RAID and ask the wikimedia foundation to copy their articles onto it once a week. Then, the array can be shipped back to a Google office for indexing. This would be cheaper for the Wikimedia foundation, and it would allow for the free flow of information that the Internet and Wikipedia were designed to facilitate.

-jX

I love christmas.

I hate out of tune cellos, small children, and hymnals that don’t keep consistant lyrics between printings.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

EDIT: PS. Cellphones and bluetooth are awesome. They let me update my blog from pretty much anywhere.

I’ve been reading a lot lately about why ZFS, the filesystem developed by Sun Microsystems, is so important to users of Mac OSX. It all sounds great! I want ZFS! oh wait… Windows doesn’t support it? Linux uses a userland hack? Linux can’t boot from it?

Why?!?! I thought Linux and ZFS were both open source?

Oh… Licensing. :-\

Well… isn’t the point of open source software to innovate without legal formalities? Since ZFS is so revolutionary, and Linux so widespread, why can’t Sun tweak their license to allow for ZFS inclusion in the Linux Kernel? Or, can Sun… just once… fork the code and hand it over to Linus Torvalds under the WTF Public License?

ZFS, with all it’s fancy features and redundancy would easily become the filesystem of choice for Server Admins, business users, and the small yet dedicated home userbase.

So what needs to be done?

1. Modify the GPL and/or CDDL so that code can be shared between the two licenses
2. Code ZFS into the Linux Kernel
3. Code ZFS support into GRUB and LILO
4. Code fsck and similar utilities for ZFS support

DO IT!

oh… have I mentioned how much I love Firefox’s spellcheck feature?

Merry Christmas!