snorrk

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by snorrk 10y ago
I don't think Edward Snowden will ever be granted asylum in Iceland. Granting asylum to Snowden without the US' blessing has massive political consequences. If you look at the close ties Iceland has to the US I think it is obvious
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by snorrk 11y ago
I'm just worried that the kids are going to get arrested: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
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by snorrk 13y ago
I'm guessing that they try to manage how email is sent from their infrastructure in an attempt to curb spam and prevent their IP ranges from being blacklisted and blocked.
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by snorrk 13y ago
According to the Azure calculator an XS VM costs $0.02/hr, which comes to about $175 a year. That is less than an 2 hours worth of sysadmin cost, excluding the hardware costs. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pric
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by snorrk 13y ago
Apparently some studies have shown that Azure has "3X better price for performance than Amazon EC2" http://www.scribd.com/doc/146167581/Cloud-Computing-Performa... Additional curated information can be f
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by snorrk 13y ago
AFAIK Silverlight is only required admin the legacy share cache service, which has been end-of-lifed (hence the reluctance to spend the effort needed to support it in the web-based portal). They recently announced that they would keep the S
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by snorrk 15y ago
I'm Icelandic, here are a few notes from the top of my head. -- Iceland is not an EU member. Iceland is a part of EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and Schengen (border control) but not a full member. An application to join the Europea