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I was one of the crowd of people who reacted to Wednesday's news that Argonne National Labs would shut down the NEWTON Ask A Scientist ...

I realize that it may not be obvious exactly how to use the newly-official Linux overlayfs implementation. Below the fold, some example she...

I spent most of last week at Usenix's File and Storage Technologies conference. Below the fold, notes on the most interesting talks fro...

Vint Cerf gave a talk entitled Digital Vellum at the AAAS meeting last Friday that has received a lot of attention in the media , includi...

Papers drawing attention to the decay of links in academic papers have quite a history, i blogged about three relatively early ones six year...

I hope it is permissible to blow my own horn on my own blog. Two concepts recently received official blessing after a good long while, for o...

Two recent publications about disk reliability are of considerable interest. Continuing their exemplary tradition of transparency, Backblaze...