Monthly Archives: November 2006

Benr & Shanr: Episode 2

November 13, 2006 – 3:58 am

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ps pipe grep: episode 2

November 8, 2006 – 6:27 pm

This week Ben, Jason and I talk with Jeff Mancuso from STFPDrive about grids. I also talk with the Joyent Connector team (after some italian food, Forchini reserve zinfandel, and Balvenie scotch) about the challenges they have had to overcome to get the product done. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.

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Thumpers are a better deal than "cheap" Apple XRaids

November 7, 2006 – 6:07 pm

Using some of my numbers, Paul Murphy points out: “In other words real results with the ZFS/X4500 combination easily exceed Apple’s marketing claims – and you get two thirds more disk for $4,000 less.” when comparing Apple XServes+XRaid as a low-costs server+storage combination to the Sun x4500s. A damning line is: “Apple went from market [...]

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For only $375, you too can find out about the 8 core principles of Web 2.0 and more!

November 7, 2006 – 5:20 pm

I thought Nicolas Carr was joking when he wrapped up a post saying that the price tag for Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices was $375 for the PDF. But. He was telling the truth. And what’s up with Web 2.0 having “eight core patterns”? I mean this from a larger perspective of [...]

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Introducing Benr & Shanr

November 6, 2006 – 3:09 am

We thought what was missing was a regular cartoon. The strip will run ~Mondays (GMT). click for larger version

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Official: I am leaving Ubuntu for Windows Vista

November 3, 2006 – 4:31 am

It’s official. I’m leaving Unbuntu Breezy Boxy for Windows Vista RC 1 and after. That’s it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m still a Macintosh user for my primary machine. But my piece of crap Compaq Presario V2000 will no longer be running Ubuntu Boxy Bitch. It is now and forever a Vista machine. Why? Simple. [...]

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Stuff I came across during the last week in October

November 2, 2006 – 4:00 am

Chris Bailey found a place in Eugene, Oregon named Taco Time and even thought to tag it textdrive. Hmm … not very redundant my friends. One of Ian Foster’s requirements to call something a “grid” is a non-trivial QoS. Nice to see a rule I learned in grad school codified in a book. Book Review: [...]

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ps pipe grep: episode 1

November 1, 2006 – 7:31 pm

Jason, Ben and I are doing a new podcast (fresh on Wednesdays) that’s intended to be a weekly conversation about systems, stuff Joyent, processes that we like or dislike. I’m serving the podcast from my Bingo disk. As I’ve said before, Bingo is a great solution for pod/videocasting. This week we talk about virtualization technologies [...]

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