EwanToo

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by EwanToo 14y ago
Depending on your budget (isn't it always..?), speak to Rightscale - they provide a set of frameworks to deploy infrastructure to various cloud platforms, and can handle auto-scaling and all that stuff.
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I guess the question is, if you're paying and you find what you believe is a system wide issue, do you expect a resolution? In this case, Google's response is seemingly "It might (or might not) be a system-wide issue, but we don't care - we
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The problem with saying things like "Support packages are available", is that time and again we see paying Google customers with support packages being treated awfully. For example, this guy was a paying Google customer but couldn't get hel
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I can't think of an off the shelf RDBMS which can't handle queries on 3 billion rows. SQL Server can Oracle can Postgres can Even MySQL can (!) The limitations are almost always in the hardware, not the software. If you're looking at column
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You're right, they don't seem to be stupid, and they all seem to have left... http://www.linkedin.com/in/pashasadri http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/10/jonathan-trevor-builder-of-... http://www.edho.com/
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by EwanToo 14y ago
All those radio waves need to be shared between every phone connected to that cell, and between all the other radio based services out there (e.g. Television). For a direct fibre link, all the available bandwidth is dedicated to you.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I don't know what the deal is in Germany, but in the UK BT have finally launched a FTTH option, so the numbers will start creeping up. The name, in case anyone wants to look it up, is "BT Infinity 160Mbps" - it's 160Mbps down, 20Mbps up. h
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Mmmm, describing 50 Mbps down as "okay for rural areas" doesn't really mesh with reality. Most rural areas throughout Europe and elsewhere are struggling with <10 Mbps, if they can get broadband at all. If you know any region in the wor
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France to invest €20B in high-speed broadband for the entire country(zdnet.com)
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Interflora SEO Penalty Analysis(martinmacdonald.net)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The very high gross margin is more likely - they're charging as much as they can, not as little as they can.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think it's entirely sensible to think about the influence that companies like Google are gaining. Each individual component is a sensible step forwards, but there's no doubt that Google could choose to do some pretty anti-competitive thin
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Backblaze do say the price per TB for 3TB drives is better, but obviously you can squeeze more TB per 4U case when you use 4TB drives. That cuts down on the power usage, cooling, and rack space that you need to pay for.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
That is a good one - I liked this one a lot http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5210880
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by EwanToo 14y ago
True, but in this case it seems like it's not a particularly new problem, just something that they've finally reacted to? They actually mention sinkholing spreadsheets.google.com in this post from August 2011 [1], they actually say "There a
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I can believe it, I just don't know why it's not been customised to react to links to docs.google.com if it's such a high volume issue. It's not a trivial problem by any means, but from the network security team's blog it doesn't seem like
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Before laptops will catch on, Windows will have to - Windows on a small screen at a very high resolution really doesn't work well. It might be ok if you got up to a multiple of 1366 x 768 pixels, so you could scale icons up to 2x size, but
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I also wonder why so many phishing emails are getting through the university spam filters - a slightly better solution might of been to remove links in external emails that point to docs.google.com. But anyway, I don't want to start slaggin
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by EwanToo 14y ago
They could deal with the email issue in a number of ways, all of them causing the security, systems, and network teams hassle, but not end users. For example, blocking all outgoing SMTP traffic except via approved internal relay servers wou
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's the perfect example of why security teams are often considered to be the least friendly, least approachable part of an already unapproachable department (IT). Their reasoning seems to be "Google Docs causes us (the security team) hassl
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I'd be sending it back for a hardware replacement, CPU, memory, who knows what, but complete lockups shouldn't be happening.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's quite funny really, the first time round the comments were all about screen resolution, now it's about "Well I like my keys.."
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's an interesting concept, but I'm not sure the financials would add up to just renting you're own 1u collocation space with bandwidth. It's an extremely cheap setup if you don't need to worry about downtime in the event of hardware failu
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by EwanToo 14y ago
What's wrong with the comparison? Both are services (Chrome's a lot more than use an executable, does sync'd data, etc), that you don't exchange money with in return for functionality.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
People use a free browser developed by a company driven by advertising revenue, and get shocked, shocked, at advertising being involved! In other news, alternatives exist and work very well if it bothers you.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The Wii U controller does seem to be the bulk of the cost, but Sony were willing to take a massive hit on the PS3 cost at first to make Blu-Ray the standard disc format, so we'll just have to wait and see how much the next generation costs
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The idea that Nintendo always sells at a profit is a long standing one, but with Wii U it's known to be false. Nintendo themselves have confirmed it: "With Wii U, we have taken a rather resolute stance in pricing it below its manufacturing
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Facebook is composed of around 10 million lines of code [1] - the public facing web is big. I've no doubt Google looks at that and thinks it's almost trivially small (Chromium alone is 6.5 million lines [2]). There's big apps in private, bu
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by EwanToo 14y ago
He was one of the developers of Rubberhose - a similar, earlier, tool to Truecrypt, not Truecrypt itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29
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The road to uncovering a wartime Colossus(bbc.co.uk)
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