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		<title>Why the OpenStack vs CloudStack debate is irrelevant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of hoopla around the announcement that Citrix will place CloudStack under the Apache umbrella, creating an effective competition to OpenStack. A lot of virtual ink was wasted on which one is more compatible with Amazon and other such issues (though, I must admit I enjoyed reading Randy Bias&#8217; view). My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is multi-core programming still hot?</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=762</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an idea that has been bugging me for a while: just how critical and hot multi-core programming is? Or, better phrased: is it relevant for the programmer at large or is it just a niche issue for some domains?
What triggered me to write this post is a recent business development workshop I attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why OpenStack?</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=758</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably saw, Ericsson has recently joined the OpenStack project. One may ask: why OpenStack, what’s the point of it?
The answer is not connected to Ericsson (and, of course, represents my personal view only), but it’s simple: it is really about openness. Openness is not about open source, alone but it’s about freedom of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cloud in 2012</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=749</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just read Randy Bias’ post on cloudscaling.com – thought provoking and interesting reading to be sure, but I’m not sure I agree with him.
Why?
Let’s put things into perspective. Amazon Web Services is clearly a fast-growing business and an admirable example of organic innovation. However, if you look at the total IT DC market, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The reverse business model</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=738</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been championing for a while what I call the &#8216;reverse business model&#8217;, so I&#8217;m glad to see it applied more and more often &#8211; most recently in a deal struck between Google and Mozilla, securing significant funding for the browser developer in return for making (keeping) Google as the default search engine.
In short, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egy székely család krónikája (II. rész)</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=730</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=730#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Bölönbe való áttelepedés – figyelmen kivül hagyva a 20. század folyamán bekövetkezö változásokat – a Vajda család történetének egyik legfontosabb mozzanata ami újfent szinte egybeesik Erdély történelmének egyik fontos pillanatával. 1690-ben, Apafi Mihály halálával véget ér a független erdélyi fejedelemség korszaka: a következö század már a Habsburg birodalomba való lassú, nem mindig békés beilleszkedésröl, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egy székely család krónikája (I. rész)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ez a beírás a családomról szól &#8211; arról amit öseimröl az elmúlt fél évben sikerült kiderítenem. A már angolul megírt beírás bövitett, kiegészített verziója. 
A bölöni ”kutyabörös” Vajda család dokumentálható története tulajdonképpen 1602-ben, Udvarhelyszék egyik eldugott falvában, Tordátfalván kezdödik. Tordátfalva akkoriban, is mint ma is, a föutaktól távol esö, egy völgyben meghuzodó, 15-25 családos település [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Üni sztárfotója :-)</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=713</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=713#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Old story, told again (with a twist)</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=710</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=710#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old story, told again (with a twist)
Reading Steve Jobs&#8217; biography, I&#8217;ve got reminded of the old claim that Microsoft copied (or stole, as Jobs put it) the graphical user interface, making it the backbone of their operating system&#8217;s success (while, for Apple, it was just one feature that helped make the product desirable). I find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just how small the mobile room really is</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=708</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[o doubt, we are witnessing fast paced changes in the mobile landscape. The emergence of Android; the downfall of Nokia; the aquisition of Motorola by Google; Microsoft&#8217;s fightback; the departure of Ericsson &#8211; all are events that would have taken years to play out in the good old days of the last century &#8211; yet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is IaaS fading away?</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=692</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=692#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we had a really great panel at the Swedish Cloud Day, with participation from OpenNebula, Google, Berkeley and Ericsson (myself). We discussed quite some issues, but one kept bugging me ever since: are we seeing a decline of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), while PaaS and SaaS keep becoming dominant?

To answer that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monetizing social networks</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=681</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=681#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IEEE Spectrum recently published an interesting article about monetizing social networks (titled The revolution will not be monetized). It makes a good reading with a provocative conclusion: advertising will not be able to generate sufficient revenue to keep the ball rolling in the long term. So, where will money come from?
I&#8217;ve wrote already once about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution as machine learning</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=675</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=675#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I had the chance to attend the Turing award lecture of the 2010 winner, Leslie Valiant. His research focuses on computational complexity which is of marginal interest for me, so I had no great expectations &#8211; nevertheless, this being the equivalent of Nobel price acceptance speech for computer science, I felt compelled to attend.
How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing twitter</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=672</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=672#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 10:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I saw the light: I&#8217;ll start twitting &#8211; so follow me here.
Let&#8217;s see how this works out.
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		<title>Programming languages and the Christian faith</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=664</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=664#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 10:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the honor to chair the panel at the Finnish Multi-core Day, with distinguished panelists form world leading companies (Intel, ARM, Nokia) as well as Swedish and Finnish universities. At some point someone raised the issue of programming languages and whether we will ever see convergence &#8211; at which point I had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Microsoft will not buy Nokia</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=657</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=657#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 13:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some buzz lately around an alleged take-over by Microsoft of Nokia&#8217;s smartphone business (launched by a well known Nokia whistle blower blogger and spread by all major technology news sites). Well, I don&#8217;t think this will happen any time soon, for quite a number of reasons.
First, Microsoft has all it needs from Nokia: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitepaper on Telecom Cloud Computing</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=654</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=654#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scope Alliance (the alliance of network equipment providers committed to providing standardized base platforms) has just released their whitepaper on telecom cloud computing. I had the honor to be the editor of the document, produced jointly by Ericsson and several of our competitors. Next week the coming out party for the paper will be held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chromebook, anyone?</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=650</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Google would obviously not agree with the conclusions of my post a couple of days back &#8211; they&#8217;ve just launched yesterday their ChromeOS and a couple of laptops in co-operation with others to run it on. &#8220;Nothing but the Web&#8221; &#8211; said one of their slogans during the Google I/O event.
Once again &#8211; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the history detective, part III: the big picture</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=644</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=644#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I managed to trace my family back to Tordátfalva, apparently. There’s no surviving church record from the 17th century in Tordátfalva, but nevertheless the link to Tordátfalva was real enough. Combing through the “lustrák” once again, there they were: Vajda János in 1602, 1604; Vajda Péter in 1627, 1635, 1648, 1655; Vajda Mihály, Péter’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the history detective, part II: historic forensics</title>
		<link>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=639</link>
		<comments>http://a-vajda.eu/blog/?p=639#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 12:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vajdi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the ‘lustrák’ were published in a series of books titled ‘Székely historical documents’. Several of these are available digitally so I went one digging through these – with little success. I figured out that there was no Vajda in Bölön before 1650, so they likely moved there between 1650 and 1712. Checking the [...]]]></description>
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