Tag Archives | open source

How Google Works – MapReduce

By on May 5, 2009 in General

Comments on the MapReduce programming model, as described by the Google paper ‘MapReduce – Simplified data processing on large clusters’.

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WTFPL – Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License.

By on April 14, 2009 in General

If I post source code on this blog that I’ve written, either inline, or linked to in a zip file or something, then unless it specifically says otherwise, you can assume usage writes under the WTFPL v2.

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Free software worth checking out – TrueCrypt

By on March 13, 2009 in Software

I’ve already done one post about software worth paying for, and I’ve got plenty of other software I want to mention lined up for the future.  However, you don’t necessarily have to pay for software, there’s an astonishing amount of freely available software that won’t cost you a penny. You probably have data on your [...]

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