Monday, January 29th, 2007
This is more or less a reference for myself in the future… in case I ever need to dig this up again… It’s quite easy to make a directory info an ISO image via the command line in OSX hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o ../myiso.iso ./
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Until somebody figured “hey, lets make a hooters for coffee!“. I mean, really, just a matter of time…
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
We all new that this would happen, google and microsoft going vying to build the biggest field of silicon trees. But what does this mean, and does it tie in with amazons latest service?! I think that undoubtedly it does. There’s talk about a last man standing game when it comes to internet bandwidth. And [...]
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
I’m trying out this “nolisting” idea which is, really clever. Of course I read about it on slashdot. I’ll be very interested to see how well it works on apokalyptik.com e-mail. If I remember both to check and to report I’ll put up some graphs. This post ought to serv both as a reminder for [...]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
so and so over ad base4.net wrote about going “beyond stateless” by using method-less objects, and I found it interesting. This thing that intrigued me after reading the article was something completely different: the idea of using the client to store their own data. I’ve often thought to myself that a form pf public key [...]
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
I’ve been kind of floating around this topic for a while… Well databases in general… And I see a lot of people who have rather high standards (which is not a bad thing.) I imagine the complication of offering a service like this comes from the fact that database people have very stringent standards. Things [...]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Imagine for a moment, if you will, making your MySQL queries via a REST API. Weird, huh? I’ll admit its a crazy idea, but then a lot of my ideas are crazy. Still. Work with me here. Query –> || REST API || The query is a select Rest API synchronously determines both which servers [...]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
One resource to rule them all, One resource to find them, One resource to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them, In the land of server where the shadows lie. It’s been a bumpy road to peoples understanding of the EC2 service. And a large part of the problem is a point of [...]
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Begin rant I’m with Jeremy on this one… Lets face it, e-mail is broken. We have long since outgrown it, we have been living with the pains of ot for a long time now. It’s everyones favorite internet whipping boy. “I hate spam” “I hate stupid forwards” “I hate huge attachments”. We spend all our [...]
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
ORDB seems to have closed its doors. Thats huge — and sad. fare well ORDB. I wish I had more info about this one. If anyone has anything to add (or clarify on the subject) I would appreciate it being left in the comments. By the time I saw this their page had gone down, [...]