Paul Vixie hosts a Personal Co-location Registry. If you have a personal 1U server running, say, a trading program or some such, then looking for place for it could be as easy as looking at the site. Continue reading "Personal Co-location Registry" »
Friday, August 3. 2007
Personal Co-location Registry
EDDY: End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY
Carnegie Mellon has a development project called EDDY which is touted for "... allowing information about the operation of disparate components in the computing infrastructure to be brought together for analysis, research, and audit. This enables a system manager to more easily pinpoint problems as they occur, allows autonomic processes to assist in prediction, management, and maintenance." Continue reading "EDDY: End-to-end Diagnostic DiscoverY" »
Trading Site of the Day -- Currency Trading: Under-hyped, for once
This is site is 'different'. I can't put my finger on it. I'm sure it has corporate backing of some sort, but that could be and probably is totally irrelevant. The definite good thing about CurrencyTrading.net is that it has a good intro reference library to currency trading. It discusses such things as the fundamental pip, how to spot forex scams, and how to choose a broker and open an account. The site is a quick read. Continue reading "Trading Site of the Day -- Currency Trading:..." »
Am I Smarter Than I Really Am?
That cuts two ways according to a paper published in 1999 by Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell University. In Unskilled and Unware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, they say that incompetent people rank themselves as more competent than they really are, and that competent people rank themselves as less then they really are. Continue reading "Am I Smarter Than I Really Am?" »