Valuating the mess that is GM ... now there is something worthy of a Doctorate from Wharton, heh

Its hard to beat the marketing juggernaut that Firefox has become.

OTOH Opera Mini is simply a wonderful app, and its an app I see installed by users themselves on smart phones everywhere. (Too bad Apple rejected Opera Mini.)

There was a time when getting Linux running on a standard PC/laptop brough much joy ...

Now its all about running Linux on beefy servers, obscure embedded devices, cell phones, clusters, and well, you name it.

Who knows what technology we'll have 10 years down the road, but lets hope that the "YEAH!! I GOT LINUX TO WORK ON IT!!!!!" feeling never goes away :)

it's only a matter of time until i can write cron jobs on my rice cooker. then i will truly know happiness.

William Deming is the reason the Japanese had high quality electronics. American's wouldn't listen to him, the Japanese needed him desperately. Today the Japanese love that man.

(While the Americans weren't listening to Deming, Harvard Biz Profs even went as far as to predict that Deming/Japan's love for quality would not be sustainable and its competitive advantage would erode. It turns out they were right, the Koreans are the example of this.)

I don't think I've ever heard of him referred to as William Deming (it took me a second to recognize who you were talking about). I've always heard Edwards Deming or W. Edwards Deming.

Its amazing how Entourage isn't even a proper Exchange client, rather an OWA hack. Its a huge show stopper.

Here is a company that clearly never ate their own dog food ...

I thought the whole point to a company was to become big enough that you don't have to serve your customers. They really didn't play mp3s?

Why do innovative software authors keep limiting themselves to Crapple's communist-like platform ?

Isn't blackberry the #1 selling smartphone anyways ? (I see a lot more of them in NYC than I do see Iphones ...)

I think you mean "dictatorial" or "totalitarian". "communism" is something quite different.

Because it's selling well, it's hyped, the apps actually (looks like) it will sell better, it's easy (for some people) to get started, and it's actually really one of the better mobile platforms to develop for, despite the complaints.

The iphone is the coolest smartphone on the market. Innovative software authors don't like working on boring platforms.

Until the iphone's cool status changes it will continue to recieve the most hype.

Two things to consider:

A) Slicehost isn't an overnite operation. Not saying I don't wish Prgmr all the luck in the world, but still ...

B) vCPUs don't matter as much as the guest/host contention ratio does. If I gave you 4 VCPU's and stuck you on a host with 128 other VMs .... you performance is going to suck no matter what. The fewer the number of guests, the better the performance of the guests.

Now only if Slicehost would stop sending me email I've got credit with them even if I have used 'em for over a year ...

heh. I've been selling Xen VPSs since 2005, and I sold FreeBSD jail based VPSs for a while before that. you can call me small, understaffed and cheap, but I've been in the market for longer than many of my competitors.

I used Caker's Linode back when he was a startup with only 4 nodes circa: 2002 :)

Good luck to you!

Heh. Nice. I remember when ec2 came into public beta I thought it was going to wipe the floor with us VPS providers. Their prices looked good at that point in time.

contention is... more complex than that. are you dedicating a core to the dom0? (it helps network performance rather a lot) the fewer VCPUs you have per DomU, the more DomUs can run at once. (on an 8 core box, with one cpu pinned to the dom0, I can run 7 1vcpu DomUs and one dom0 (for network/disk io) at one time. Alternately, I can run 1 4vcpu DomU and one Dom0)

On the other hand, if nobody else is trying to do anything, the box with 4 VCPUs has 4 times the resources that the box with 1VCPUs has.

Its not advisable to switch to Ext4 until at least kernel 2.6.30, which is not out yet.

http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6... (Read 'Data Security' section)

I like DD-WRT for my router as well. Its just plain awesome, and their router compatibility page tells you exactly which model's do and do not work, and if what extra steps are needed to install the DD-WRT firmware.

I will warn you, and I'm not sure if this issue exists for other *WRT firmwares, but PPTP VPN and OSX is not ideal on DD-WRT: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/PPTP_Server_Configurati...

OpenVPN is the way to go, but not built in like PPTP is, well, everywhere ...