Sat 17 Oct 2009
A recent tweet from my pal #eknock complaining about some juicy ORA-06550: line 1, column 7 reminded me of these error codes that an old-cgi script of min produces:
Of course it’s just a perl script and the system had nothing to do with Oracle. Just one of those little things that can be done to throw snoopers off the trail.
Sun 4 Oct 2009
Yesterday I attended the first-ever Hadoop World, sponsored by Cloudera and held in The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. I took an early Amtrak train up to the big city and a late train back that same night. The conference was well attended, over 500 big-data heads were there and the organizers did a fantastic job.
Some of the best stuff was just hearing about how other folks are using Hadoop. I also enjoyed hearing about the sizes of other people’s big-data problems. There were three tracks, so I only heard 1/3 of what took place, but here are some notes on what I did hear after the break.
It was a great day, a long day, glad I went. (more…)