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Fresh Out of the Oven
- Google IRC: Group Chat Rooms on Google
- Consumption versus Creation: Why I like the Padfone Tablet/Phone
- Fault Tolerance: When it segfaults…
- Real Time Scamming: Scammers exploit bin Laden news in search, Facebook
- Power Management vs Low Power Design: Watts the difference?
- DD-WRT Install: Pleasant Hacking
- What FIFA Soccer TV Can Learn From NBA
- Cloud Computing: The Wheel Makes a Circle
- Windows Media Center Remote Control on iPhone
- Windows 7: (Liberating) My Media (Center Setup)
Trip Down the Lane
Pick Your Poison
Category Archives: Technology
Google IRC: Group Chat Rooms on Google
We have been recently struggling with trying to find a good group discussion forum for real-time collaboration. With members of new team spread over multiple time zones and network availability, it is good to have real-time interactivity without going through … Continue reading
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Consumption versus Creation: Why I like the Padfone Tablet/Phone
I have been evaluating the numerous tablets (including the iPad obviously) and trying to figure out if I really need one. Since I already spend 8+ hours a day in front of a laptop/desktop, it seemed a little redundant to … Continue reading
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Fault Tolerance: When it segfaults…
Note the following excerpts from the 2011 Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage explanation from Amazon: When a node loses connectivity to a node to which it is replicating data to, it assumes the other node failed. To preserve durability, it … Continue reading
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Real Time Scamming: Scammers exploit bin Laden news in search, Facebook
If only we could do useful products so fast: Scammers exploit bin Laden news in search, Facebook.
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Power Management vs Low Power Design: Watts the difference?
I often get asked why the blog has zero content about my work. If I were to blog about work it will/should be on our corporate blogspace. Search for it. However, I do get asked another question from friends outside … Continue reading
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DD-WRT Install: Pleasant Hacking
I was one of the early PlayOn paid users and upgraded to Premium recently. It really does work very well on wifi but not too well for video streaming on 3G. If you are interested in remote media streaming, you … Continue reading
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Cloud Computing: The Wheel Makes a Circle
Have you noticed the latest white paper advertised on your favorite tech news site? Or maybe you have noticed it in the news itself from your neighborhood technology company. Cloud Computing is the future baby! If you did not know … Continue reading
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Windows Media Center Remote Control on iPhone
Isn’t it ironic that there is more attention paid to iphone remote applications for windows media center control rather than WinMo apps or AppleTV control? I have been comparing the different applications and I have tried a few of them. … Continue reading
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Windows 7: (Liberating) My Media (Center Setup)
I have been an early fan of the Windows Media Center. Windows XP MCE 2005 was the first computer I actually bought new because I could not get my hands on a used or do a build of an MCE. … Continue reading
Sidekicked: Is the Cloud Fluffy?
I guess the outage at the Danger division of Microsoft has given us a new term for when things go wrong in the cloud. Would you be willing to let your data and applications live in the cloud and be … Continue reading
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