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Recovering space on your hard drive

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Percy Kwong

There are many articles about dealing with recovering space on your computer / hard drive / Storage and they all talk about the same things.  This article isn’t going to so much focus on that, but simply focus on the not so obvious things you can do. As a rule of thumb, there are always…

A less costly way to build an Amazon AMI without incurring the cost of doing it on EC2

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Percy Kwong

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…

Looking for a PBX? Consider the Cloud.

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve spoken of the virtues of a cloud PBX on many an occasion.  The reality is for the last 8 years, I’ve been running my phone system / PBX in a cloud for many reasons.  The most important is redundancy. The system has had no downtime except for when I was applying maintenance upgrades.  My…

Promise Pegasus R6/R4 on Windows Bootcamp [SOLVED]

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’m a Windows and a MAC User.  It really chaps my knickers that I went out and bought a brand new Promise R4/R6 RAID Array only to find out I can’t use it with Bootcamp.  (Having an SSD in my Macbook Pro is great, but space is at a premium). Apple doesn’t want to help,…

Gas and Electric Reductions

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Percy Kwong

Well, I can say that it’s pretty ugly.  Gas + Electric more than $1000.00 a month.  I wondered if I could do anything about it, so I took a look at a few things and figured, why not give it a shot?  Worse Case, I hate the implementations and I undo my actions. I went…

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