On Linux and Android relationship

Linux Weekly News did an excellent coverage of James Bottomley talk at LinuxCon Japan on Linux and Android relationship.  I’ve read several opinions on the matter and this one seems to be the most balanced and objective.  There is something to learn here for every open source developer and enthusiast. The community should do better … Continue reading On Linux and Android relationship

Fedora 16 will use Btrfs as default filesystem

Linux Weekly News notifies: At the June 8 meeting of the Fedora engineering steering committee (FESCo), the group decided that Fedora 16 will ship with Btrfs as its default filesystem. Btrfs is a relatively new copy-on-write filesystem with many interesting features such as read-only and writeable snapshots, multiple device support for RAID, online filesystem defragmentation, … Continue reading Fedora 16 will use Btrfs as default filesystem

China is coming

These days, when discussing globalization with my friends, the discussion often touches upon China.  And more often than not I hear skepticism when suggesting that China’s role is becoming more important and more influential.  While I am of the opinion that China is in its early stages of being a global superpower, many people seem to … Continue reading China is coming

Day in brief – 2011-06-08

New note : Top Tips for new CloudFlare Users – CloudFlare's blog http://bit.ly/m9B6lc # Object-Oriented PHP: Working with Inheritance http://bit.ly/lWZcWo # I thought it was about 2am. It's actually 4:31am. Damnit! # @CloudFlare IMHO you should by cloudflaire.com and redirect it to your site. Out of 3 people I recommended your site to, 2 went … Continue reading Day in brief – 2011-06-08

On free education

Cyprus Updates points to several studies, one of which indicates how much money people in Cyprus spend on compensating the poor quality of public education. In Cyprus, tutoring consumed €111.2 million in 2008, of which €30.5 million was for children in primary schools, and €80.7 million was for students in secondary schools. For me, it reminds and … Continue reading On free education