I’ve sung the praises of DTSearch before, and the company just turned its search product up a notch with the release of DTSearch 7. The big upgrade here is the ability to index more than a terabyte of text in a single index and to search that index in less than a second. This is…
June, 2005
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This Slashdot post asks the perennial question, how do you back up all this data you’re creating with that nifty computer and attendant devices? The person who submitted the item has a misplaced, in my opinion, fear of using optical media citing a study about optical media failures rates. I recently had the opportunity to…
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So on Friday the 17th I closed on my house, and the next Saturday quite a few family members were over helping tweak some minor problems with the house (its 50 years old and the previous owner had a higher-than-warranted opinion of his handyman skills). The kids are running around, but fortunately Emma had a…
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Thank goodness the Supreme Court today ruled that cities have the right to seize people’s homes in order to sell them to rich developers. I’d hate to live in a country where petty things like property rights actually stood in the way of enlightened bureacrats dreaming of high-rise hotels and shopping districts. Just rewrite the…
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Okay, this is funny. Back in 2004, Michael Gartenberg chastised Cory Doctorow for a speech Doctorow gave to Microsoft about DRM. In his speech, Doctorow asserted that, 1. That DRM systems don’t work 2. That DRM systems are bad for society 3. That DRM systems are bad for business 4. That DRM systems are bad…
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Google’s been receiving a lot of criticism lately as it grows bigger and bigger, and for the most part I think a lot of that criticism has been misplaced. One area where Google has clearly screwed up, however, is Google News. Google uses an inexplicable process to determine which sites do and do not get…