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  • How Amazon is building substations, laying fiber and generally doing everything to keep cloud costs down

    Originally posted on Gigaom: If there’s anyone still left wondering how it is that large cloud providers can keep on rolling out new features and lowering their prices even when no one is complaining about them, Amazon Web Services Vice President and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton spelled out the answer in one word during a presentation…

  • All-flash IBM V7000 smashes Oracle/Sun ZFS box • The Register

    What would happen if we replaced those 16 disk-based V7000s with all-flash V7000s? Each of the disk-based ones delivered 32,502.7 IOPS. Let’s substitute them with 16 all-flash V7000s, like the one above, and, extrapolate linearly; we would get 1,927,877.4 SPC-1 IOPS – nearly 2 million IOPS. Come on IBM: go for it. via All-flash IBM…

  • 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica

    “I missed the mark with HyperCard,” Atkinson lamented. “I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I’d grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. via 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica. Bill Atkinson‘s words on HyperCard and what…

  • My current line of work

    There is no end to the amount of stuff I get asked to do. I like the technical aspects and not so much the other bits. There is a lot of communications and expectation setting. And therein lies the rub.

  • 2012 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

  • Attempting to create an autounattend.xml file for work

      Starting with this website tutorial I’m attempting to create a working config file that will allow me to install new Windows 7 Professional installs without having to interact or click any buttons.   http://sergeyv.com/blog/archive/2009/12/17/unattended-install-of-windows-7.aspx   Seems pretty useful so far as Sergey provides an example autounattend file that I’m using as a template for…

  • Apple, Google Just Killed Portable GPS Devices | Autopia | Wired.com

    Note this is a draft of an article I wrote back in June when Apple announced it was going to favor its own Maps app over Google Maps and take G-Maps out of the Apple Store altogether. This blog went on hiatus just 2 weeks after that. And a whirlwind number of staff changes occurred…

  • End of the hiatus

    I am now at a point in my daily work where I can begin posting to my blog once again. It’s not so much that I’M catching up, but more like I don’t care as much about falling behind. Look forward to more Desktop related posts as that is now my fulltime responsibility there where…

  • A Hiatus is being announced (carpetbomberz.com is taking a pause)

    Sadly, my job has changed. I was forced to be re-assigned to a different part of the same organization I have worked for the last 16 years. Luckily I GOT a job, and still have one. Which is more than some people who have suffered through these last 4 years of recession. So I thank…

  • The wretched state of GPU transcoding – ExtremeTech

    For now, use Handbrake for simple, effective encodes. Arcsoft or Xilisoft might be worth a look if you know you’ll be using CUDA or Quick Sync and have no plans for any demanding work. Avoid MediaEspresso entirely. via By Joel Hruska @ ExtremeTech The wretched state of GPU transcoding – Slideshow | ExtremeTech. Joel Hruska does…