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Joyent: free accelerators for facebook apps

Monday, March 31st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Facebook, Joyent and Dell have partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure (peered with Facebook’s datacenter!) provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage […]


Its offical the dash will soon be dead - i want a xperia

Monday, February 11th, 2008
Ok I love my dash, and as much as apples fan boys love the iphone i’ve always been kinda ” ahhh i don’t know ” about it. after wiping my dash an average of once a week to try and fix an constant “camera in suspend mode” issue. I decided to give up. I’m already […]


complete cross platform browser testing while your out to lunch

Sunday, January 27th, 2008
I came across a project / site @ browsershots.org today that will test a given url in pretty much any and every browser that even partially matters, on the 3 major platforms ( linux, windows, and mac ). It’s completely free, and they’ll provide your screenshots in about 30 minutes. Even better you can […]


the new network: what’s it about

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I’ve been posting alot on linux htpc, mythtv, and netowrking here and there, thought i should prob explain what i’m looking to do.also i need to start documenting stuff for myself. current systems right now i have 4 boxes. p4 2.4 laptop p4 2.8 laptop pentium m 1.8 laptop amd x2 4600 desktop at the current moment there all being used as […]


how to: zalman hd106xt linux htpc

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Came across this while researching for my new boxes. I’ll post my experiences once i finally get started. Here is a very good in depth how to, covering almost everything you’ll need to know to create an htpc using linux with the zalman hd 106 xt This site represent my small contribution to the Linux communty that […]


linux: tweaking linux and freebsd for best gigabit performance

Monday, December 10th, 2007
quick how to for tweaking linux / freebsd systems for optimal gigabit performance Many new workstations and servers are coming with integrated gigabit (define) network cards, but quite a few people soon discover that they can’t transfer data much faster than they did with 100 Mb/s network cards. Multiple factors can affect your ability to transfer […]


How Can Linux Market Share Be Accurately Measured?

Monday, December 10th, 2007
eWeek ran an article yesterday titled Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server. The article quoted IDC sales figures. There is a real problem counting this way. Quoting from the article: IDC analyst Al Gillen pointed out that the number of servers shipped does not perfectly equal the number of operating systems […]


OS market shares in November 2007 - zdnet

Monday, December 10th, 2007
OS market shares in November 2007 by ZDNet’s ZDNet Research — Net Applications report on operating system market shares based on Internet visits puts Windows XP at 78.37%, followed by Windows Vista with 9.19%. The long tail of the OSs used while accessing the Web features Apple iPhone at 0.09%, PlayStation 3, Sony PSP […]


linux: setup Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 on linux and windows

Monday, November 19th, 2007
more linux hdtv stuff. I’ve used this recently and I loved it. wanta get one for my broadcasting kit - just in case Hauppauge has released a fairly nifty USB 2.0 tv tuner stick, about the size of a lighter, that can receive free over the air HDTV and analog cable tv signals. The product also […]


comparing flash to windows media streaming

Sunday, October 14th, 2007
I’ve recently had a client that swears by windows media for steaming, and wanted to create a youtubish site using it. I helped him understand that flash was the best option, but then decided to look deeper into the debate to see what other people consider the pro’s and cons. I now to most of us […]