I added two confluences to my list. Victor and I spent three days in the beginning of September in Northern Ontario and we logged two successful visits. You may read the full trip reports 50 N 85 W and 49 N 83 W. We are planning more confluence visits, some of them may involve quite a bit of snowshoeing.
On unrelated note, I'm starting to worry about future of some filesystems. Companies behind two brilliant filesystems - XFS and ReiserFS are going through hard times now. Hans Reiser - founder of Namesys and creator of namesake filesystem is arrested on suspicion of murder. SGI - sponsor of XFS - filed for bankruptcy.
Unfortunately, there is not much going in filesystem world lately. Subject area is actually extremely complex and very conservative (it is your data at stake after all). Microsoft took WinFS out of Vista and the only notable advancement I can think of is ZFS by Sun - not exactly new but it is getting a lot of traction lately.
One of the most interesting reads lately were answers of several famous programmers to a Polish student's questions, published on student's blog. Torvalds, Stroustrup, Norvig, Bray, Gosling and others share their thoughts on next big things, best books, most useful skills forprogrammers, and many other topics.
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Submitted by frolov on Sun, 2006-10-15 22:03.
