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Steve Jobs on why no Facebook for Ping
1Talks with Facebook about Apple’s new Ping music social network fizzled, Jobs says, because Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to.”
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Moving PASS
0There was a survey recently sent out by PASS that asked about moving the Summit from Seattle to other places in the country. It seemed to have been written to shade people towards picking Seattle as the place for the Summit, at least from the discussions among people on Twitter about it. I thought that as well, but I might be biased since this was a complaint I voiced to various PASS board members. I don’t know if I could do a better survey, but I did suggest they just ask for a show of hands during the Friday morning update. I thought asking “who wants Orlando? Who wants Boston” would have been good enough to get an idea of whether it’s worth pursuing.
Over the years I’ve had mixed feelings about the Summits. As a DBA I wanted it in Seattle so that I could meet and ask questions of dozens of MS developers during the Summit. As the editor here, it’s still good to meet MS people, but I’m less concerned about finding the mid-level developer that worked on PBM to ask about an issue than I am about getting together with Dan Jones and talking higher level issues, and sharing beverage.
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Spring Cleaning
0I was reading an article the other day on spring cleaning, talking about all that data that is out there in the world, on people’s machines, and is taking up space, with almost no chance of being used again. It’s seems that storage is constantly a battle for many people, trying to decide how much to keep, how much to delete, and if the cost of storing something is worth it.
This article is written for the end user, but it could be applied to servers as well. Especially database servers where we are constantly adding more data, and at increasing rates over time. For this Friday, I wanted to ask a poll question related to managing your servers.
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E3 2010–deja vu all over again
0Sony and Microsoft wanted everyone to get worked up over Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move, but to this observer, this all seemed very much like what we heard a year ago. The big news was really about 3D.
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