Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Core Lego Mindstorms Programming [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 8:13:57 AM

Improving Unix Mail Storage? [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]  More evidence that the e-mail is causing people pain.   This posting lays out some of the alternatives (mbox, maildir, db, etc).   A few useful pointers in the thread that follows. [rosewater] Interesting... Chris Eakin has an opinion on this from his days at College Club.  Good pointers to ReiserFS docs and related research too. 8:12:01 AM

NYT.  Housing prices continue their climb.  The median price of Bay area homes is higher than at the height of the tech boom.  Long Island real-estate is up 26%. This data answers the question:  where are people going to put their money now that the stock market is in the tank (and is likely to stay there)?  A quick look at the data indicates that a 5-7% sustainable increase is possible, given current wage growth, inflation, and interest rates.  This may become the vehicle for a broad-based retirement plan for the nearly 70% of the workforce that own homes. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:16:59 AM

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