EwanToo

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by EwanToo 14y ago
Netflix definitely had the ELB issues, I think it was described by them as "ELB routing issues" - the service was up, but some people were being sent to the wrong AZ. That certainly sounds like this doesn't it?
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Blocking new writes on it's own would cause instant filesystem corruption for all the hosts using EBS, unless they had already completed their writes and had time to flush their disk caches. You'd need to integrate it with each VM running,
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Dropbox sell to some enterprises, but nothing like Box.com does, that's the difference in focus. Both companies do almost exactly the same thing, but Dropbox is focused on end users, and Box.com sells to enterprises. Take a look at the box.
904.
by EwanToo 14y ago
I think it would affect sign ups, yeah - business buyers are generally very conservative, the bigger the company, the more conservative they become. Selling to big companies generally means you have to behave in a very dry, almost dull mann
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by EwanToo 14y ago
One thing that I've seen is that the English used on the Pricing page [1] needs some work, phrases like "^40 Team Size" don't mean anything to me or to enterprise buyers. And the answer to the "Are there any discounts?" question is just pl
906.
by EwanToo 14y ago
Is just affiliate spam
907.
by EwanToo 14y ago
Odd, Firefox here seeing a signed GlobalSign nv-sa certificate that it's got no problems with. Maybe just a rapid fix by the dev :)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think though while you're happy with your tablet, you're very much a niche, not the mass market. I've got an android tablet, a nice one not a cheap one, the Motorola Xoom 2, and I barely use it. It's still on Android 3.2, doesn't handle t
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Because the UK never extradites anyone to the USA, especially their own citizens... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon
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by EwanToo 14y ago
They can do this, but I don't believe they've done so yet.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I wouldn't say it's the worst, but it's pretty poor. The page doesn't mention whether it's per day, month, or year for example, but they seem to be taking feedback from a couple of the other comments. Not sure why you've been downvoted for
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Metro is the wp7 style tile interface, with one fully maximised app open at once.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
True, you're probably better off running the replication at the database layer, which can normally by either synchronous or asynchronous depending on what people need. For people who don't want to spend the money on a hot standby, you can s
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The Netflix approach (which definitely isn't for everyone), is to use no persistent storage. They cluster their databases across multiple instances, availability zones and regions, and back them up constantly to S3. Their ultimate recovery
915.
by EwanToo 14y ago
RDS should not have lost data, and if I were a user of it, I'd be annoyed too. At the same time, if you've not spotted by now that EBS (elastic block storage, which powers RDS) is not reliable and not to be trusted, then you have to look at
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Sorry I can't reply to you sthulbourn but go here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ It's a BBC worldwide website, working in the UK, using the BBC brand (e.g. the logo), showing adverts to UK people. At the bottom of the (very good) content it
917.
by EwanToo 14y ago
That still makes absolutely no sense. The BBC use location services to show adverts on the BBC news website, they could equally use the same services to not show adverts on this site. It's just plain shoddy thinking.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's absolutely not an explanation as far as I'm concerned. BBC Worldwide does operate in the UK, it sells DVDs, magazines, etc, so there seems no reason to lock UK users out of a specific website just "because" - the explanation they give
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The real question is "How little are Intel willing to sell the CPU in this phone for?". A fairly up to date Cortex-A8 ARM CPU can be had for under $5 [1] and as impressive as Intel's manufacturing base is, their profits are based on selling
920.
by EwanToo 14y ago
The thing is, it's not true. UPS only have an exclusive on deliveries to inside the Olympic venues themselves, not the houses or buildings outside them. So if you live in the area, there's no real change (other than traffic causing you all
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Applying back pressure when overloaded(mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.co.uk)
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UK cookie law changed at last minute to allow implied consent(guardian.co.uk)
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Everything that's wrong with Yahoo, summed up in an IPv6 readiness test(cloudflare.ipv6-test.com)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I'm not sure it is. MM is semi-standard English, at least in the US, because M can be confused with the M used for one thousand. But B doesn't get confused with anything, and I've never seen BB written anywhere before this..
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Someone else pointed that out, it's not good is it? I've disabled the AddThis bar while I look into it (the caches might keep it alive for a while though), hopefully there's a suitable solution.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think that's probably the next experiment, I'm not sure if I'd got for a HDD or a very small USB SSD to keep the power usage down - at the moment it's under 0.5W, a HDD will be several times that.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Ouch that's ugly isn't it? It's obviously not good enough. Will see about sorting it, thanks.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You're probably right, it's certainly the component I'd be least surprised about if it failed. I do nightly backups off the box, and if the machine does die, I'll post down a newly configured micro-SD card for insertion before doing much in
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Hmm, I might need to disable cloudflare then, frustrating really as it's a clever service.
930.
by EwanToo 14y ago
I think as long as the price remains under $100, the manufacturers will consider the whole device a replaceable part on it's own. It'd be a bit like sending out a hard drive component for an engineer to replace, when the drive itself costs

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