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by btb 13y ago
What brand notebook is that? Just so I can make a mental note to avoid purchasing that brand in the future :)
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by btb 13y ago
Inspired by the article I signed up and spun up a 512 mb droplet. It eventually came up(although took alot longer than the advertised 55 secs). Felt very sluggish, or maybe they run alot of startup scripts on boot? I tried running "top
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by btb 13y ago
Yup. Read an article the other day that police cars in some US cities drives around continously scanning license plates with topmounted cameras. Given Moore's law, I suppose they will sooner or later have the computanional power to be able
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by btb 13y ago
Edit, oops followed parents link to this: http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokudb-for-mysql/ : "Tools such as Hot Backup (coming soon) allow a backup to be completed while database is running." - Does that mean that someone using the openso
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by btb 13y ago
And all those windmill parks are heavily subsidized, which contributes to the Danish electricity prices being the highest in all of EU[1], 0.3 euro per kwh. Its basically a state-guaranteed high yield for the pension funds etc that put them
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by btb 14y ago
Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions 1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the optional agent, how invasive is that and does it carry extra performa
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by btb 14y ago
Wow thats amazing. Honestly feel bad for any IT admin who bought any of their products not knowing about those backdoors(assuming they arent disclosed anywhere). I personally would be extremely upset to read that A)they had backdoors in the
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by btb 14y ago
Yeah I've been wondering which tablet/pad to recommend to my parents. They arent that much into computers, and I dont think they want to have two tablets lying around when one is all they need. So for them the nexus 10 sounds like a good ch
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by btb 14y ago
My general take on their writeup was that they have too many services that depend on EBS working. They should try to find ways to decouple critical services like loadbalancers and Amazon RDS from EBS.
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by btb 14y ago
Yeah the new 75% income tax bracket in France really is putting the Laffer curve theory to the test. Will be very interesting to see how it pans out. I'm sure socialist governments elsewhere in Europe is following this grand experiment clos
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by btb 14y ago
The scariest part of this article IMO is how there now is a recipe posted for getting into any amazon account. Imagine all the damage/harassment they could do once in there, buy all kinds of stuff and have it sent to you. Spin up 20 EC2 ins
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by btb 14y ago
Kinda ironic, I get "Oops! Google Chrome could not find blog.picplum.com" :)
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by btb 14y ago
Would these be suitable to run a single big SQL Server on? I mean specwise they seem perfect for our size/use. They say data will survive a reboot, but what are the chances I would some day have to wake up in the middle of the night and hav
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by btb 14y ago
And just before it deletes itself it posts threatening messages via your twitter and facebook account, designed to trigger the automated systems presumably watching these, thereby triggering an investigation into your affairs. YouGoToJail i
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by btb 14y ago
Ahh interesting. My password was on the list(I changed it before checking). old password: ve78d9k6k 4c1433ca9d58d7d7ba00658d209583d8edde144a
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by btb 14y ago
Interesting, I've noticed that alot of sites I read started using them as well. I dont know why, because IMO its a giant step backwards compared to pdf's, at least you can always search and copy-paste relevant sections from those. Not so on
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by btb 14y ago
IMO a dependable stack requires a firewall in front of your servers. Sure you can configure software firewalls on all of your servers, but its nice to have an outer wall as well(defense in depth and all that). If hetzner started offering th
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by btb 14y ago
IMO CS is necessary to advance the state of the art. And while I completely agree that many computing/programming tasks currently do not necessarily require a CS degree, there is no guarentee that will always be the case. As for my myself,
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by btb 14y ago
Not sure I agree. I've never heard of Coda before, and the webpage doesnt really tell me what it does or why I need it. I get the impression its some sort of visual studio-like thingy for mac users?
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by btb 15y ago
Or he have an MSDN subscription which covers both Windows+Visual studio, and dont want to pay extra for an OEM license to something he already has the right to use.
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by btb 15y ago
I had similar problems with the windows 8 server beta. Tried installing it in a vm to check it out. And I was unable to figure out how to do anything at all with it. No windows explorer, or command prompt available. I dont even get the metr
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by btb 15y ago
Wondering that too. I really like the idea of having hosting in the cloud. But I'm not going to move anything critical there until the storage gets better and more predictable. All these stories you read about having to stripe several EBS v
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by btb 15y ago
Then you might also enjoy this review: http://www.storagereview.com/intel_ssd_520_enterprise_review I found the write speed improvements from overprovisioning the SSD 20% especially interesting. Although probably irrelevant if your webser
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by btb 15y ago
Ditto with Denmark. Although we have to register our opt-out with the postal service, and then we receive a special sticker to put on the mailbox. There are have even been talk about changing junkmail to opt-in instead.
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by btb 15y ago
Please.. save the outrage for something that matters, like SOPA or protect IP. There is IMO no "issue" here. I dont see any problem with googles approach. I agree that you can probably find alot more offensive profile pictures and its borde
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by btb 15y ago
Childish indeed, for a grown man to A)have a flipping bird picture as his profile picture and B)writing a whining blog post when it gets removed..
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by btb 15y ago
Well we just went through the same process. And the guy we talked to at google was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. But in the end that did not matter, because even after a 80% discount of the list price the final google maps offer was
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by btb 15y ago
Yes it is, at least for us. We run a 15 mio pageview/month website, completely reliant on advertising, and we have a google map on probably 4 mio of those pageviews. So our bill is going from free to 16.000$ pr month $4 cpm is interestingly