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Cloud Computing Hype

October 29th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Ever since I attended the JBOSS World User Conference in February 2008, I’ve been getting a lot of junk emails from companies touting “Cloud Computing” technologies.  It’s the latest buzzword in the tech industry.  With big players such as Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, it sure gets a lot of attention.  Essentially, cloud computing is the [...]

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Lunch Bits - Edition 25

September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We went to various restaurants.  The days were warm and sunny, when we talked about:

Mechanical Engineering.  The highest in demand major!
Skype is a good VOIP app.  It’s good for video chat too.  Just need a webcam and one of these phone contraption.
When do we use math?  Absolutely everywhere, in every studies.  Except Calculus, unless you’re [...]

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Outage

September 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, I just had an epic outage yesterday morning.  Around 8am, my 650VA battery backed Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) was … interrupted!  The battery, or something, died on this thing.  It was a no name brand, I guess I got what I paid for.  I’m not sure if I can (or should) fix it.  Needless [...]

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PC Build 2008: Part 2

September 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments

I completed my PC hardware setup.  Last weekend, I concentrated a good chunk of time to get the software up and running.  My Operating System of choice now is Windows Vista Ultimate.  I’m planning to upgrade my PC to 8Gb of RAM, so I’ll need the 64-bit support to take advantage of it.  Initially, I [...]

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PC Build 2008: Part 1

September 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

It has been at least 3 years since my last PC build.  My rule of thumb is to build a new PC with at least twice the capacity at the same price.  A lot has changed in 3 years so it’s pretty easy to find new parts with at least 2x the power.  From my [...]

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