Archive for the 'Ramblings' category
Twitter Updates for 2008-06-17
- live streaming of Linux Journal Meetup here http://tinyurl.com/6pb9dc #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-06-16
- @charnellpugsley not sure chumby is worth it, but its a neat toy. Mine is sitting on my nightstand. #
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New fancy southwest waiting area seats with power
Posted by richardyoo on Natuba
Update 6/10/08:
Wow, looks like SWA is watching! Thats great!
http://twitter.com/SouthwestAir/statuses/831042961
More on Going Solar
In my continuing research I ran into this video… lots more research to do.
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Going Solar
This is a pretty good blow-by-blow of one person’s installation of solar panels… it makes me seriously think about doing it too…
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Twitter Updates for 2008-06-03
- taking apart an xbox360 is definitely not a trivial matter… but having the right tools helps. ugh #
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Google Streetview Bot in Action
You can see a Streetview car in action here:
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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-27
- @candieb rasterbator is your friend http://tinyurl.com/2egvf I suppose the most expensive part was the 15mins I spent on it. 🙂 #
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Our fancy new natuba sign for our lobby
Posted by richardyoo on Natuba
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Email Hosting has no Value
I pretty much agree with most of this blog post:
Nobody puts any attention on email hosting, and everyone is giving it away for free. And all the free services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc are remarkably good… much better than what you could roll on your own, or buy from any for-pay email hosting companies.
Personally, I’ve stopped hosting any of my email on my own servers about 2 years ago.. which I’m sure surprises lots of people since I love managing email servers… but the reality is that its just a huge pain, and its a 24×7 service that you can’t live without – and frankly, Google/Yahoo/Microsoft are all really good at it and I have other things to do. 🙂
Lately, I’ve also grown fond of the web-based interfaces from Google/Yahoo/Microsoft… I find them much more useable than OutlookXP/2003/2007 and even better than my all-time favorite Eudora. I’m getting really close to going 100% web on my email – maybe this summer… hmm…
Bump Keys
A quick video showing how Bump Keys work… your locks are not safe.
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The SuperNAP
Now this is a how you build a datacenter… wow!
- 407,000 square feet of space
- 250 MVA Switch owned substation
- 146 MVA of generator capacity
- 84 MVA of UPS supply
- 30,000 tons of system plus system cooling
- 4,500,000 CFM
- 30 cooling towers
- 100% heat containment using thermal-scif™
- Designed for 1500 watts per sq. ft. density
- 7000+ cabinets
http://www.switchnap.com/pages/products/the-supernap-video.php
More coverage here: Huge Data Center Going Up In Sin City
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New ants eat small chickens
So now we have these new-fangled “crazy ants”… wonderful. 😐
The good news? They eat fire ants, the stinging red terrors of Texas summers.
But the ants also like to suck the sweet juices from plants, feed on such beneficial insects as ladybugs, and eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered type of grouse known as the Attwater prairie chicken.
Twitter Updates for 2008-05-13
- ouch, its days like this I’m glad I’m not working at a hosting company day-to-day anymore. 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/4mbhku #
- Hummer H2 doing to be discontinued in 2010. Chevy Avalanche and Cadillac EXT also getting canned. http://tinyurl.com/5m8zmt #
- You down with BOC?! Ya you know me! http://tinyurl.com/5neah3 #
- @jimyang interesting… we’ll see what we can do with that.. thanks! #
- @pud id-10-t, I like it! #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-05-12
- @RakeshAgrawal Dunno what caused the power problems. [shrug] #
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