tech poet

I am checking out the grand new offices for the RAMCloud project at Stanford . The internet here is 1,741 times faster than 56k dial-up! Ironically storage speeds have not grown at the same rate as Internet speeds, that's what RAMCloud hopes to solve (in the data center). This is insane bandwidth. Oh and every PC here gets a public IP! I'm in Internet heaven.

Major geek out this evening. I was supposed to go to the gym with Diego but he passed out on the couch from jet lag and I decided to hit the open source reporting space instead (the obvious choice!). I'm evaluating JasperReports , an open source reporting engine. I'm very impressed with the results. Installation: Installation was a breeze - I fired up a Debian 5 VPS on my home server and after downloading the JasperServer package I had my TomCat, MySQL, Java installs all done for me. I had the option to configure each component separately - I opted to have Jasper do all that for me this time. I also decided to give JasperReports-Pro a try under the time trial demo. There's also the completely free open-source edition. Data Source: Once I was able to log into the web interface I had to find some data! I decided to try data.gov . I found some "raw data" on 2008 adoptions per foreign country for United States families. The data came in the form of an .xls f...