Remember, I’m a General Contractor.. The difference is I don’t screw over my customers. I got into the business, because I couldn’t find an honest one. So.. I figured why not? Just do it myself. I expanded into HVAC within 6 months and ended up having some of the top buildings in NYC as my(…)
So I thought I would write up an article showing some open source alternatives that work well as replacements for commercial products. Open Source is a huge movement these days and in many cases, even large companies are moving towards Open Source software. The irony is it’s free and in many cases has more features(…)
People always wonder whether or not the Cloud is a good idea. Early adopters of technology (like me) test these technologies long before they’re put into production. For me, as a CIO/CTO/Consultant, if it passes the Percy test, it goes on my list of recommendations. So what exactly is the “Percy Test”? It’s a long-term(…)
So I drive a car that requires 93 min. Octane. Me, being the skeptic started thinking about Gasoline blends around the world. I realized in my travels (and I am extremely well traveled), that pretty much every other country in the world has one grade of Gas vs. America and some parts of Europe and(…)
I’ve written about recovering space on your hard-drive using a method called data-deduplication. It’s beyond the complexities and skill of most people out there except for the select few that are the true gurus of the tech world. The original Posting is here: http://swimminginthought.com/recovering-space-hard-drive/ I just thought it would be important to point out how(…)
I build Amazon AMIs. I started out building them on the actual Amazon EC2 infrastructure myself only to learn that doing so costs the runtime and the money on EC2. There is an easier way to get alot of it out of the way without it actually costing something. My suggestion is to build a(…)
