Tiernans Comms Closet

a couple of days back (Monday actually) i bit the bullet and bought an MSI Wind / Advent 4211. They are basically the same device, just rebadged… This is now my Third mini laptop in 9 months or so. First, there was the Asus EEE, which i had for a couple of months, before selling [...]

Pascal commented on my last post about my comments not working great with IE6. I also noticed some issues with IE7… It think its the way my network here is setup. it maybe something with do with ISA server caching some of the Javascript files, or the way SimpleCDN is serving them… Either way, i [...]

A few days ago, i got an email from Elara telling me they had some HP Proliant servers quite cheap. How Cheap? ML110, which is a dual core Xeon, 1Gb ram, 250Gb SATA HDD and onboard RAID for 160EUR! they also have the ML115, an Dual core Opteron box, 512mb ram, and 160Gb hdd for 150EUR… [...]

Its taken a while, but amazon have finally released the Elastic Block Store, their presistant data store for EC2. The way it works is as follows:

you create an EC2 instance as normal
you create a EBS Volume, ranging from 1Gb to 1Tb. this costs 10c per gb allocated per month.
you mount the EBS Volume on the [...]

So, congrads to the SQL Server team who have RTMed SQL 2008 Server! Currently downloading it now from the MSDN. This site, which is currently hosted on SQL 2008 RC will be upgraded soon to the full 2008 RTM. Watch this space!

So, i finally got around to building a Windows Home Server. Last week some time, while looking for something in my room, i found 2 motherboard boxes. both of which where heavy. so, being a bit courious, i opened them and found 2 full motherboards with processors, heatsinks and one having memory. one had an [...]

So, a couple of months back, I started playing with Navizon on my iPhone. The reason was simple: they had better coverage than the guys running the AGPS for the iPhone, and, not only that, you could get paid for mapping data. The idea is quite simple: if you have a device with a GPS [...]

I just found Flock. this is one very interesting web browser. there are more built in features than i can count, and it has a built in blogging tool, which i am currently using to post this…
Still playing around with it, but there are some very nice features… I do like the web clip board [...]