Data Centers: Moving to Iceland
According to Treehugger, companies like Cisco and Microsoft are, get this, moving their data to Iceland! I’m totally ahead of the curve. Who knows, maybe I’ll get to sell my domain name for a couple thousand bucks.
According to Treehugger, companies like Cisco and Microsoft are, get this, moving their data to Iceland! I’m totally ahead of the curve. Who knows, maybe I’ll get to sell my domain name for a couple thousand bucks.
Merlin Mann says: The problem, as many folks have discussed at length, is that the file size for HD movies, in particular, may be prohibitively large for the garden-variety home broadband user. Storage isn’t a problem anymore. I just saw a 500GB USB drive for $140. Since the AppleTV isn’t meant to store this stuff [...]
For those who don’t know, I recently switched jobs. I’m now working for Mapquest in the B2B Tools department. The next big move for us is from the AOL Server and Tcl to Tomcat and Java under the Spring framework. I’ll save the description of my new job environment for a later date. Suffice to [...]
If learning to drive were like learning Office, parallel parking would be performed with the jackhammer tool and the Create New Curb wizard. From Slashdot
They’re at it again. The “honorable” Senators Feinstein, Biden, Graham and Alexander have published a bill that, among other things, would force podcasters to add DRM to their podcasts. Even if they don’t use any copyrighted music or any music at all. Now, to ordinary folks like you and I, this is a pretty big [...]
DHL just dropped off a bright orange box containing my Vonage phone adapter. I can’t wait to get home an start clogging some tubes. So far, I’m really impressed with their customer service and website, but I haven’t had a chance to actually use the service. Expect more later on this evening. Update: The initial [...]
I was reading a posting from one of my “friends” on MySpace about how their life would be if they responded to all the forwards out there. And then it hit me; “This crap is flying around MySpace, which means this isn’t clogging my inbox.” Guess there’s something good about everything. Even if it’s MySpace
Can someone point me to a place where I can learn how to set up a Java web app in OS X? Cause I can’t find it. I mean, I found a Spring tutorial and a Hibernate tutorial, but they don’t make any damn sense.
So I’ve bit the bullet and switched over to Firefox from Safari. While I’m still not 100% (Firefox still has my “work” bookmarks, but I think I’ll be switching over to del.icio.us as my bookmarking repository. What finally did it for me was the discovery that the Google plugin will autofill my form fields. This [...]
My coworker had to find a way to test if a point is within a certain convex shape using PHP. He found a function in C++ that did the trick and ported it to PHP. I’m posting it here so that anyone who needs it can find it. Here’s the source code. Bear in mind [...]
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