Tiernans Comms Closet

I was looking on Komplett this morning for SSD Drives (to paraphrase the Stereophonics "Im just looking, im not buying, yet") and was suprised to see a big difference in price between SSD SATA drives and SSD Express Cards. they are selling a 32gb express card for about 100EUR, but  the cheapest 32gb SATA Drive [...]

SWEET! Scott Hanselman has a post on his blog showing you how to get MSBuild to build in Parallel. this could come in very handy. we have a machine here for building our projects on, and you could be talking 4 or 5 projects, if not more, all linked together. to enable parallel builds on them, [...]

So, over the last week, I have been backing up my photos to Amazon S3 using S3Backup. The problems with S3Backup are 1: its not easily scriptable (I can kick off a backup job, but I cant say just backup this directory…) 2: it syncs Whole file changes. So, I make a small touch up [...]

so blogging on the oqo is very posible. this post is posted over bluetooth through the Atom life…. working well!

Since i will be using OneNote on my OQO for handwritten notes, and also would like to sync it with my PC at home, i started looking for information about syncing notes with multiple machines. Chris Pratley has a post on his blog explaining how to do this for multiple different ways. he goes into [...]

So, yesterday i talked about the design of the oqo, but i dident get a lot of time to play around with it properly, because 1: it needed to be charged for 24hours before i could unplug it, and 2, for some reason my Wireless network is acting up and it would no connect. Well, [...]

Right, after moving to Graffiti, Windows Live Writer was not working. And this morning Robert Sweetnam emailed me telling me my RSS feeds with feed burner where screwed. links where being sent to my internal server name, not blog.lotas-smartman.net. After a bit of tweaking with ISA, i fixed the problem. For Graffiti to work correctly, [...]

found this on the Amazon forums (mostly leached from the post)
Current data transfer price (through April 30, 2008)
$0.100 per GB – data transfer in
$0.180 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.160 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB – data transfer out / month over [...]

So, last week i seen Expansys selling the OQO model 01+ for a very cheap price, and deicided to sell the EEE and get an OQO instead. 
I bought mine with Windows XP home edition, and i will be installing XP Tablet on it soon. I may even try Vista on it, though it seems as [...]

The Windows Live guys have released Application Based Storage, a service for storage small amounts of data, eg application settings, in the Windows Live cloud. An example, i can think of off hand is Mail server settings. as long as you own the machine and it knows your Windows Live ID, it could download your [...]