Tiernans Comms Closet

So, i have been meaning to do this write up for a while now, but with one thing or another, things got in the way. there are now 3 big contenders in the Servers as a Utility war that i can see, and i have looked into. If i am missing any, drop me a [...]

Amazon has released some new EC2 instances which are aimed at users who require more CPU power. there are 2 new instances:
High-CPU Medium Instance
1.7 GB of memory5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)350 GB of instance storage32-bit platformI/O Performance: Moderate Price: $0.20 per instance hour

High-CPU Extra Large Instance
7 [...]

This post is more a post for me, than a general post, but it could come in handy for others.
A while back, i got a Linksys RV042 for my home router. this was all well and good (2 internet connections, linked to give me massive bandwidth!). Its all great. but, my XBox 360 failed to connect [...]

And an upgrade to SQL server as your Graffiti Backend!
here is the load time graph from mon.itor.us yesterday, before moving the DB to SQL server:

and here is a screen shot of the same server, same hardware, but with SQL as the Backend:

yes, that image is only for the first 9 hours, but [...]

So, last night, after moving the blog to France, i realized that the site was still acting a bit slow…. so much for the server in house being under powered and over crowded… so, i asked on the Graffiti CMS forums would moving the Data backend to MS SQL Server instead of VistaDB make the [...]

So, it finally happened! The blog has left home and moved to France. My Dedicated server arrived this morning, and i moved the blog and this is the first post on the new machine. the machine that is running the blog is a 1.2Gz Ceneron 220, 1Gb ram, 250Gb hdd and 100mb/s internet connection. [...]

So, for the last few days i have been running my blogging tasks with 4 major tools: Evernote, Twitter, GTalk and IWantSandy. These are invalueable tools, which i want to talk about today and tell you how i am using them.
Evernote

Evernote is a great service for taking and hosting notes. I have it installed on [...]

so, yesterday i mentioned that the blog is being powered by a CDN for all the Javascript, CSS and images. this, from what i can see, has hepled speed up the site. This will tide me over till my Dedicated Server arrives, when ever that will be…. anyway, i have updated the front [...]

So, a few days ago, I mentioned SimpleCDN, a very cool Content Delivery Company, which has a very novel approach to CDN business: one time charge. I talked about it before, and a few days back they updated their pricing for smaller files (under 100k). Well, for the last few days, I have been [...]

so, reading JK on the Run this morning, i found their post on the CTR500 Cellular Travel Router by Cradlepoint and though "SWEET! I WANT!" but, its missing something very important: Battery power.
if i am "out and about" in town or somewhere, with my laptop, iPhone, etc, and i am sitting in a Cafe or [...]