Monthly Archives: March 2009

What about technical advances

On the same topic I watched the nice lection by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett on Arithmetic Population And Energy.   As usually in such cases I like to check what oponents of the theory have to offer. So what it takes … Continue reading

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On Exponential growth

I’ve recently watched couple of videos on youtube -  Chris Martensons “Crash Course” and another one focused on oil production in particular.      These are very good education videos  though you may lose your sleep for couple of nights … Continue reading

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Dual License Open Source challenges

I was thinking about how  MySQL compares to  PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB in terms of business advantages.     Sun owns  MySQL source code which means they can sell it under commercial license and nobody else can, which is a blessing but it is also … Continue reading

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Picking a NetBook

For a while I wanted to get a sub-notebook or NetBook as they call them sometimes.  Something easy to carry around to take notes etc.   I tried 9 inch ones and these had too compact keyboard while 10″ looked reasonable. … Continue reading

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