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I finally got around to processing some of the pictures I took this past weekend. I wanted to share a few. How does that one look? I like to think it passes as a ‘normal’ shot. What’s not evident is that it was underexposed, poorly metered, had a nasty green color cast, and had everything [...]
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7 Feb 2008I was thinking last night about solid-state drives. In their current form, they’re really not that much faster in terms of throughput: a decent amount are actually even slower than ATA disks if you measure them in terms of MB/sec throughput. Where they shine (100 times faster, at least) is seek time, though. So where [...]
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20 Jan 2008Sun bought MySQL. Also, Sun’s CEO {has a blog, doesn’t know how to resize images other than changing the HTML attributes}. Remember back when they were a little below $5 a share and I said I thought they were going somewhere? Next time I’m putting my money where my mouth is. They closed at $15.92 [...]
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16 Jan 2008In case anyone here is interested, I’m hosting a VMware Player image for BlueQuartz, the ‘modern’ GPL version of the old Cobalt RaQ software. A lot of people seem to want a VMware image. I was one of them, until I ended up just creating one on my own. So grab it while it’s hot! [...]
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15 Jan 2008Amid wrestling with getting Xen working (its kernel doesn’t play nicely with my video drivers… oh how I hate closed-source drivers), I downloaded VMware player. It’s free. I first downloaded a VMware image of Mailserver by Allard Consulting. Quick review: I’ve never used it in a ‘real’ environment to send or receive e-mail (and I [...]
I’d gone a while without ogling Apple products. So they came out today with some new products. This is a neat idea. It’s their “Airport Extreme” wireless AP (with N-capability), but with a neat addition–a 500 or 1TB disk for wireless backups. Sure, the real geeks already have their Linux server in the basement with [...]
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15 Jan 2008FDC (FDCServers.net) has come a long way since I last dealt with them. (I remember back when they had a couple Cogent lines). They’ve now got 81 Gbps of connectivity. Internap has long been the Internet provider when latency/speed matters. They basically buy lines from all the big providers, and peer with lots of the [...]
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11 Jan 2008I really didn’t pay it that much attention, or think about its full potential, at the time it was released. But Amazon’s Simple Storage Servic (hence the “S3″) is really pretty neat. In a nutshell, it’s file hosting on Amazon’s proven network infrastructure. (When have you ever seen Amazon offline?) They provide HTTP and BitTorrent [...]
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6 Jan 2008No matter what I do, I keep finding myself thinking about webhosting. Netcraft does a monthly survey of hosts with the top uptime, and mentioned that DataPipe is usually on top. I’ve found that, at least for what I do, any “real” data center has just about 100% uptime. I have never not been able [...]
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3 Jan 2008Disclaimer: I can tell right now that this is one of those late-night posts where I should be sleeping, not posting about a technical topic. But these not-entirely-lucid ones are sometimes the most fun to read. I consider myself extremely tech-savvy. I can build a computer from parts, make my own Ethernet cables, run some [...]