Monthly Archives: September 2006

Tony Jaa kicks all kinds of ass

September 9, 2006 – 7:24 am

The plot of The Protector is so-so, but Tony Jaa …? Tony Jaa kicks all kinds of ass. First time I’ve felt like I was watching “a Bruce Lee” since Bruce Lee.

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From Super Secret to Super Yacht

September 8, 2006 – 5:43 am

We’ve all been casually following the drama at Hewlett Packard. Seems the Chairwoman of the board of directors hired private investigators to find out whether a director of the company was leaking information about Carly Fiorina’s departure from the company. The methods were/are suspect. Fine. A director of the company, Thomas Perkins of Kleiner Perkins [...]

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The JRuby guys get hired by Sun

September 7, 2006 – 6:27 pm

In their own words “The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month. Our charge? You guessed it…we’re being hired to work on JRuby full-time.” And remember that they got a simple rails application running under jruby last May. Tim Bray has some more on it Well. [...]

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More Thumper, More Beer, And Everything is Clear

September 3, 2006 – 12:08 am

Jason and I were down at Sun yesterday taking delivery of another Sun X4500 (aka “Thumper”). Here’s a picture of us with Bill Moore and Jeff Bonwick of Sun. This is part of the extraordinary Try and Buy program at Sun (though the picture looks more like “Wheel and Steal”). We encourage you to take [...]

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Dell sells EMC storage

September 1, 2006 – 8:27 pm

Dave is rightly happy about passing EMC in networked storage sales The problem? All of Dell’s SAN, NAS and iSCSI (“networked storage”) are EMCs. 66,581 EMC + 19,651 Dell = 86,232 terabytes vs. 68,898 terabytes NetApp Unless I’m missing something here? {btw 86,232 TBs is 3,593 raw thumpers , nuts huh?}

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