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		<title>They Killed KScope!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite a while, my favorite source editor/browser has been KScope.  It combines one of the better source editors I&#8217;ve seen (Kate) with a very robust cross-referencing tool (Cscope).  Unfortunately, when KDE went from version 3 to version 4, they made changes that broke KScope.  What&#8217;s a little odd is that Kate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Star!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, maybe just a brown dwarf.  In any case, on Friday I joined an episode of the Infosmack Podcast to talk about cloud storage, NOSQL, and a bunch of other stuff.  If anybody wants to know what Jeff-with-a-cold sounds like, here&#8217;s your chance.
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		<title>Site Trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just for fun, I decided to spend part of my lunch break generating a graph of my top twenty posts.  The first graph I did was total hits vs. date posted.  I know this site has become more popular lately, and I wasn&#8217;t too surprised to see that the increase in popularity outweighs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2643</link>
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		<title>Yesterday&#8217;s Election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A short break from the purely technical stuff&#8230;
The voters of Massachusetts sent a message yesterday.  That message was, &#8220;Waaaahhhh!&#8221;  The people who created the United States Senate as a place where statesmen could soberly reflect on issues of lasting importance, somewhat insulated from the fleeting passions whipped up by demagogues, are all turning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2636</link>
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		<title>MaxiScale, Round Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a nice chat with some folks from MaxiScale this evening.  Yes, I know, some people will think I&#8217;m forever tarnished by having actually talked to somebody who makes money, but I figure if you write something about someone then it&#8217;s only fair that you give them a chance to respond.  All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking at Cloud Scale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scalable systems are not just bigger versions of their smaller brethren.  If you take a ten-node system and just multiply it by ten, you&#8217;ll probably get a system that performs poorly.  If you multiply it by a hundred, you&#8217;ll probably get a system that doesn&#8217;t work at all.  Scalable systems are fundamentally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the MaxiScale FUD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people don&#8217;t understand storage.  A lot of people don&#8217;t understand distributed systems.  It should be no surprise, then, that very few really seem to understand distributed storage.  Even experts in one of the two relevant specialties often seem lost when attempting to deal with their intersection, or make amazingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CassFS 0.01 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can see it here.  As I mentioned in my update last night, it works well enough to extract and build &#8211; but not run &#8211; iozone.  That was the milestone I had previously established for making the code available, but I&#8217;d like to make sure one thing is very clear.
This is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2613</link>
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		<title>Software Licensing as an Environmental Issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I suggested that I might use AGPL for my Cassandra filesystem, somebody asked why I would choose that particular license.  I answered briefly in a comment, but I think the subject deserves a fuller explanation.
First, I&#8217;ll try to explain what AGPL means from my perspective.  The basic intent of GPL generally is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2609</link>
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		<title>Cassandra Filesystem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the holidays I had planned to work on a FUSE interface to Cassandra.  Yeah, it&#8217;s a silly idea.  I&#8217;m not doing it because it&#8217;s useful.  Mostly I&#8217;m just doing it because I can.  I like to play with code even when I&#8217;m not working, so even though this involves two [...]]]></description>
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