Thoughts on the Cloud
A business partner of mine asked some basic questions about cloud computing. We had a small exchange that I felt worth sharing.
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Free web hosting
When it comes to website hosting, many would favor free hosting rather than fork out money for it. This leads them to search for free web hosting.... more »
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Mobile Market Going Open Source?
At this year's GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of "Mobilizing Open Source", which was no doubt spurred in part by the... more »
Android Shmandroid, Who Cares?
It's a clear case of something that's just gone too far.
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How to transform a broken laptop into a server
Towards the end of 2008, I felt the need for a development/staging server at home, as part of my freelancer work with php applications. The server did... more »
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How We Made GitHub Fast
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order... more »
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Dungeons & Dragons done right on Microsoft Surface
I don’t want to put any pressure on Michael and the team over at Carnegie Mellon University, but you guys should be getting an A for your class... more »
Nvidia RealityServer - Graphics Rendering Cloud
Cloud Computing started from the cloud based processing then expanded steps to storage and now comes the third contender: Graphics. Now, Nvidia will... more »
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Google + Motorola + Verizon = DROID = iPhone Killer ? Droid Revealed
Google, Verizon and Motorola have come together and they have created Droid, which is being seen as the iPhone killer.
Apple introduces revolutionary new multi-touch "Magic Mouse"
Suddenly, everything clicks. And swipes. And scrolls. Introducing Magic Mouse. The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse. Now included with every new iMac.... more »
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Does your office have a weather system?
I wrote a post a while back when I purchased my iobridge module which you can use to control switched and sensor. After that post I had my module... more »
Verizon’s Silly Commercial Against iPhone – Promoting Untouchability!
Yesterday Verizon launched a commercial against iPhone. It highlights all the features an iPhone doesn’t have and then ends up saying “Everything... more »
The State of Solid State Hard Drives
I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a... more »
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Bye Bye Bluetooth
Come 2010 and no longer would you be using Bluetooth for short range file transfer. Apple, Intel, Cisco (and other major players) along with WiFi... more »
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Nokia’s Booklet 3G (Netbook) Comes With 12 Hour Battery Life?
Nokia will start selling its first netbook in US, which will run on Windows 7 from Oct 22nd along with Windows 7. Nokia will start selling its first... more »
Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge
At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Larry Ellison offers $10 million to companies if Sun-Oracle servers don't perform twice as fast as the competition. Oracle... more »
Larry Ellison shows Sun-Oracle Benchmarks, hits IBM, offers $10M Prize
Larry Ellison took the stage during the keynote, kick-started by clarifying the common questions- Hardware Business Strategies: Sun SPARC and Open... more »
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Nuclear Batteries, Now A Reality
Everyone had though of using nuclear batteries as a source of energy in the past, this though has now become a reality as research engineers at the... more »
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RAM is the new Disk, Disk is the new Tape
With disk speeds growing very slowly and memory chip capacities growing exponentially, in-memory software architectures offer the prospect of... more »
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Hitachi’s Face Recognition TVs turn off when you look away
Hitachi demoed a very basic face recognition system at CEATEC this week. The system is a normal TV, with a built-in webcam that runs face recognition... more »
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The database for solid state drives.
In our previous post we discussed the optimal block-size for B-trees on solid-state drives. A few people mentioned page alignment – an issue that can... more »
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VMWare Fusion 3 is snappier, Faster, more scalable, GPU accellerated
Tehre are lots of new things with the upcoming VMWare Fusion 3. It will let users Run, Migrate Windows seamlessly onto Mac OS
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Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's
The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers... more »
Rethinking B-tree block sizes on SSDs
One of the first questions to answer when running databases on SSDs is what B-tree block size to use. There are a number of factors that affect this... more »
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Parallelism /= Concurrency
If you want to make programs go faster on parallel hardware, that you need some kind of concurrency. Right? In this article I’d like to explain... more »
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