Woke up this morning, no Internet. Kicked the cable modem a few times and went to work. Come home, still no Internet. TV is out too.
Dial 1-800-COMCAST. Wait on hold 43 minutes. “Your service was cancelled.” Wha wha WHAT?
Someone called and cancelled our service. They gave just our phone number and a name not on […]
Archive for May, 2007
Peer 1 Update
28May07Don’t think I’ve pimped my employer this month…
Fog Creek Software has launched Hosted FogBugz using two of our co-location facilities. ServerBeach recently gained WordPress.com as a customer, and for the remainder of May they are offering free setup and 15% off all new server orders with the promo code FS15MAY07.
Back at Peer 1 Dedicated Hosting […]
WordPress.com’s “Secret Sauce”
28May07Matt Mullenweg has announced the upcoming release of HyperDB, the “secret sauce” that allows WordPress.com to handle:
Replication
Failover
Local and remote datacenters
Partitioning
Different tables on different DBs
This is a pretty big deal. Lots of companies have built big services around open source products, or open sourced the software behind their own services (ie: Joyent Connector), but it […]
Less Isn’t Always More
27May07Everyone seems to worship the ground that 37 Signals walks on, for being the quintessential “Web 2.0″ bootstrapped company, or the “Less is More” philosophy, or being masters of Rails and great UI…
But every time that I sign into Basecamp and click on Milestones, I think of them as the retards that couldn’t code a […]
Longhorn
27May07Installed Windows Server ™ Code Name “Longhorn” for the first time. I forget why this is supposed to be exciting. It’s Vista. Minus the Aero theme. Plus some new wizards for managing “Features” and “Roles.” Yawn. The “Core” editions do not currently support IIS or SQL Server. Which is probably for the better, the amount […]
ESX Summary
25May07For fun I like to power up 8 or 12 VMs at the same time…
Regensburg, Germany was added to the World Heritage List back in August.
Criterion (ii): The architecture of Regensburg represents the city’s role as a medieval trading centre and its influence in the region north of the Alps. Regensburg was an important transition point on continental trade routes to Italy, Bohemia, Russia and Byzantium. It also […]
Infill G4 Installed
16May07Got the Infill G4 Car PC from MP3Car.com installed last week but I keep forgetting to bring the camera with me. Here’s a crappy Treo shot:
Too soon to say much more than the installation was as easy as any aftermarket head-unit and Windows XP is a crappy OS for embedded devices.
