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Paul Hickey’s gite near Toulouse, available for rent! ‘a beautifully converted barn on 5 acres, wonderfully located in the French countryside. 4 Bedrooms, sleeps 2-10, Large Pool, Tennis Court, Large Trampoline, Broadband Internet, 30 Mins Toulouse/Albi, 65 Mins Carcassonne, 90 Mins Rodez’
(tags: ex-iona gites france holidays vacation-rentals vacation hotels)
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The Ello founders are positioning it as an alternative to other social networks — they won’t sell your data or show you ads. “You are not the product.” If they were independently-funded and run as some sort of co-op, bootstrapped until profitable, maybe that’s plausible. Hard, but possible. But VCs don’t give money out of goodwill, and taking VC funding — even seed funding — creates outside pressures that shape the inevitable direction of a company.
Inviso: Visualizing Hadoop Performance
With the increasing size and complexity of Hadoop deployments, being able to locate and understand performance is key to running an efficient platform. Inviso provides a convenient view of the inner workings of jobs and platform. By simply overlaying a new view on existing infrastructure, Inviso can operate inside any Hadoop environment with a small footprint and provide easy access and insight.
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‘Linux is becoming the thing that we adopted Linux to get away from.’ Great post on the horrible complexity of systemd. It reminds me of nothing more than mid-90s AIX, which I had the displeasure of opsing for a while — the Linux distros have taken a very wrong turn here.
(tags: linux unix complexity compatibility ops rant systemd bloat aix)