I ate my iPhone. It was crunchy and tasted of nuget.
Archive for February, 2008
In my dream
23Feb08Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp.
The lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday by lawyers representing Detroit’s police and fire retirement system and general retirement system, as well as “all […]
I was trying to ask why the WaMu Free Checking page says “Free ATM cash withdrawals worldwide: Withdraw cash from your WaMu Free Checking account at any ATM and we won’t charge you a fee” while their Statement of Fees page says that it costs $2 to use a foreign or non-WaMu ATM.
Getting SSDs to Perform
23Feb08There are a few tricks to using SSD. An SSD config without any sort of tuning is going to be a dog in terms of performance. A naive SSD + MySQL implementation is going to be really slow when deployed out of the box.
— Kevin Burton, Final Thoughts on SSD and MySQL
Kevin has a bunch […]
Bummer
22Feb08I’d been hoping that the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 might be the ultimate no-compromise, three-ish pound notebook… GigE, WWAN, optional DVD or second battery, upgradable to 4GB RAM. Pricey but not outrageous considering the standard SSD.
Then I learned that it’s packing a meager Intel L7100 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo. Need to see more benchmark data […]
Dual power supply considerations
22Feb08Interesting article on configuring dual power supplies to prevent a cascading failure. The more that I learn about redundant power infrastructure, the more I believe that it is responsible for more downtime than it prevents.
I had no idea
22Feb08that buildings could get the Energy Star label:
Glad to live in Broward County
21Feb08After lengthy and often-contentious debate, Miami-Dade County commissioners - some grudgingly at first - voted Thursday night to approve a basic plan for a $515 million, retractable-roof stadium that would open in time for the 2011 season.
— SI.com
Suckers.
