Monthly Archives: August 2007

Want a chance at a year free on a Joyent 'L' Accelerator?

August 31, 2007 – 5:26 pm

Sun has launched a new promotion for the month of September where the first 20 Sun Startup Essentials members who refer 3 new approved U.S. members by September 30th will receive one year of free hosting on a shiny Joyent ‘L’ Accelerator! Here’s how it works: 1. Refer Submit the names of the companies you’re [...]

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A Ticker Symbol Tip-off: why operating systems don't matter. (Or chip architectures. Or the speed of RAM.)

August 30, 2007 – 11:46 pm

When I read Sun Microsystems was changing its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA, I was dumbfounded. At first glance it seemed like a monumentally silly gesture. However, I now see it as an important market signal. And this is big. I don’t often run across burning bushes in the desert, but this ticker symbol [...]

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Using DTrace-enabled Python in a Joyent Accelerator

August 29, 2007 – 6:29 am

Bryan wrote about a presentation he gave at Google (video) where he demo’ed DTrace in Python. While we did the dtrace probes for Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6, I thought I’d show you how to do it on our Accelerators as well. John Levon at Sun has written about the DTrace probes that he put into [...]

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ps pipe grep: Episode 19 (Talk Talk)

August 24, 2007 – 12:21 am

Ben, Jason and David discuss camping, CampCamp, when to quit smoking, Ben’s workout routine, Xen/VMWare, Niagara 2, building a mainframe, Skype outage. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This week’s music: Mary J Blige: Real Love and MJB Da MVP.

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Sneak Peek: Notification Notifications

August 23, 2007 – 4:34 am

No, that’s not what they’re really called. Yes, they are awesome though. Connector has long had a feature called Notifications, which are a super-handy way to notify someone on your team of an event, a link, a document, or whatever. It’s kind of like ‘starring’ something for someone else to check out. I’m a geek [...]

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Who is your Justin Timberlake?

August 22, 2007 – 1:22 pm

In the media blitz leading up to the release of “Graduate”, Kanye West has been out talking to, well, the media. I saw this AP interview where Mr. West made the following claim: My biggest inspiration and biggest competition is Justin Timberlake[.] He’s the only other person that gets an across-the-board response and respect level — [...]

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Joyeur Meetups: Berlin and Paris

August 21, 2007 – 10:50 pm

BERLIN, GERMANY (September 17th) Several of Joyeurs are headed to Berlin for RailsConf Europe so we figured it was a perfect excuse to check out the beer making skills of the folks over at Lindenbräu” at the Potsdamer Platz. We plan on setting up a few chairs at 7pm and will start buying pints immediately [...]

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When you're really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive than a CDN

August 16, 2007 – 9:34 am

I had largely ignored the Amazon S3 pricing hike or decrease (depending on who you are) which included the addition of a per request charge. It really popped up again when I was recently talking to a new accelerator (just a few) + CDN customer recently. They have about 9 million images taking up ~200 [...]

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Joyeur Bytes: Issue 2

August 16, 2007 – 12:33 am

The latest issue is now available online and covers such spicy topics such as the open sourcing of Connector, Shared Hosting and changes/addition to our Support services. Oooooh. Ahhhhh. Bell was also nice to me and created a RSS feed. Our plan is to send these little nuggets out about six times a year, with [...]

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BarCamp Block Party: August 18th and 19th

August 14, 2007 – 3:51 am

If you are around Palo Alto, CA this weekend, plan to swing by the Social Text offices to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of BarCamp in a weekend long party full of demos, presentations, and lots and lots of opportunities to geek out. I think a few of us from Joyent will be there and I [...]

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