I did a previous post on this, pointing to Ramon Leon’s first blog post on how to scale Seaside. That was on a Windows server. He’s revisited the topic, trying his hand at scaling Seaside on Umbutu Linux Server, using HAProxy.
Archive for March, 2007
Scaling Seaside on Linux
Posted in Information Technology, Squeak on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What computer literacy means
Posted in Art, History, Just For Fun, Technology and Software on March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Unfortunately I can’t remember where I got this. A while back I was reading something that Alan Kay wrote, or watching an online video of him. Anyway, in one part he talked about what computer literacy (in the context of a new medium) meant. I believe he said he observed something years ago, and it illustrated [...]
Commercial PC History, Part 2
Posted in Art, History, Technology and Software on March 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Edit: This was originally Part 2 of a series on commercial computer history, the first part talking about and showing in online video the 3-part documentary, “Triumph of the Nerds”. That didn’t work out. So instead I rewrote the first part in a post entitled “Triumph of the Nerds”, which just describes the series. This rewritten post [...]
Microsoft patches Visual Studio 2005 for Vista. Confused? Answers here
Posted in .Net, Technology and Software on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Late last year Microsoft revealed that Visual Studio 2005 would not work on Windows Vista when it was released. About a month after Vista’s release, Mary Jo Foley reported that Microsoft had released a patch for VS 2005 that would make it compatible with Vista. It’s available here. They’re calling it “Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update [...]
On our “low-pass filter”
Posted in Analysis, Art, Education on March 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been reflecting on the concept of humanity’s “low-pass filter” lately, following up on my previous post on the state of computer science education today. Quoting Alan Kay, again:
One could actually argue—as I sometimes do—that the success of commercial personal computing and operating systems has actually led to a considerable retrogression in many, many respects.
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