Every once in a while, there’s a company that just stands out from the rest. Rarely, is it a technology service company; even more rarely, a VPS provider. I’ve been with Linode for 5 years now and I can truly say that I’ve never had a problem with them. As those of you who know(…)
So here’s the deal. As we all know, Comcast and pretty much every other major ISP is now inspecting every little bit of traffic we use. My little Amazon VPN instance has served me well, but Amazon has been a bit restrictive as to the bandwidth I’m allotted on a micro-instance. That being said, I’m(…)
I would say the title of this post says it all. Thunderbolt and it’s roll-out seems to be completely dysfunctional. Once dubbed (or is it still?) Lightpeak, the promise of blazing fast speeds for data transfer has completely gone the way of the do-do. It would seem Intel’s PR department jumped the proverbial gun a(…)
I just thought I’d put together a quick Google Map showing North Korea’s strike capability. Interestingly enough, everyone to the west of North Korea doesn’t have to worry so much as China would never allow any Missiles to fly over their airspace. This leaves Japan, Guam, and Southeast Asia at risk. It’s a sad day(…)
Many of the commercial products on the market today have their roots in Open Source or GPL software. It’s the dirty little secret of the industry. So why do these products exist if you can get the GPL version for free? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer. Corporations and Individuals buy commercial software(…)
In my infinite wisdom, I decided to backup my Mailserver which is an Instance Store based AMI. It should have been a completely straight-forward task, but the reality is, nothing ever is. Somewhere along the EC2-Bundle-Vol process, the rsync process decided to go into uninterruptible sleep. Ahh the fun of EC2! rsync to the loopback(…)
